Henry Spencer wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> >     setenv LANG de_DE.iso-8859-1@euro
> >     setenv LANG DE_de.ISO-8859-1@euro
> >     setenv LANG de_DE.Iso-8859-1@EURO
> > Do you think an average user can guess which one of these he has to
> > type?  No GUI available!
> 
> If the user has to *type* one of those, the system is broken.
> 
> You can write a menu system, which will list the legitimate choices and
> ask him which one he wants, in twenty lines of shell script.  It will run
> on any ASCII terminal.  There is no need to have X and Tcl/Tk to write
> interfaces that are more novice-friendly than setenv.

Nice idea.  However, that this menu system shell script still has to be
made is enough proof that, in practice, people will use setenv.  I often
use "env LANG=<locale> gvim <arguments>" to test message translations.

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