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. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 33. You name your children Eudora, Mozilla and Dotcom. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.moolenaar.net \\\ ((( Creator of Vim -- http://vim.sf.net -- ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim ))) \\\ Help me helping AIDS orphans in Uganda - http://iccf-holland.org /// -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
