Bruno Haible -
> > the documentation doesn't have a list of locale names that work.
>
> But it has a command to give the list. "man 1 locale" =>
>
> locale [ -a | -m]
>
> -a, --all-locales
>
> Write names of available locales.
% locale -a
locale: Command not found.
I'm on FreeBSD 4.2. Perhaps Linux has this command.
> You also have the locale file description in "man 5 locale" and the
> general locale overview in "man 7 locale".
% man 5 locale
No entry for locale in section 5 of the manual
% man 7 locale
No entry for locale in section 7 of the manual
You are probably going to suggest I install Linux instead...
> If you want it for a particular xterm, you have to look in the xterm
> menus. Unfortunately, in the old 8-bit font technology, it is not
> possible to switch locales in a running xterm. (If it already uses an
> ISO-8859-1 font, you can't display ISO-8859-5 characters with it.) And
> even with the xterm using ISO-10646 fonts, it's impossible for xterm
> to change the locale of the sh and programs running inside xterm.
% env LANG=ja_JP.EUC gvim
Works well. Of course, you have to know exactly the name of the locale, which
is the point I was addressing.
Using an xterm menu will only change the locale of the xterm itself, not the
shell running inside it, right?
> But some other programs (Emacs, yudit 1.x, netscape) allow choosing the
> locale or language in a user-friendly way.
Hmm, I wonder where they get the list of supported locales. I don't know a
library call for that.
> If you look in the system tool (YaST or similar) or window manager
> (KDE Control Center -> Desktop -> Languages) you'll find a way to
> choose the locale for the entire system or desktop.
These tools are system specific, they probably know to find the directory that
contains the locales. For a portable program like Vim, is there a generic way
that works on all Unix systems?
Anyway, whatever ways you can think of to set the locale in a nice way for
applications that include this support, there will still be plenty situations
where you have to type the locale name. I still haven't heard a reason why
setlocale() needs to be case-sensitive.
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