Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > What is the *system default character set/locale*? where is it
> > defined?
> 
> One SuSE Linux systems, it's defined in /etc/SuSEConfig in the line
> RC_LANG=... and you are asked during OS installation what you want
> it to be.

it's now (SuSE Linux 7.3) defined in /etc/rc.config.d/lang.rc.config,
which is read by SuSEconfig.

> This ends up as "export LANG=..." in /etc/profile

SuSEconfig generates /etc/SuSEconfig/profile
which is sourced from /etc/profile and contains this "export LANG=...". 

> and is the locale that users use which don't know what a locale is
> (i.e., 99%).

Yes.

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