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Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> Try "locale -a". It'll give you a list of valid locales, and aliases.
> It reads its contents from /etc/locale.aliases
> Over on debian-devel, I've been proposing changing the locale-gen cmd.
> in Debian (and similar in other distributions...) to automagically edit
> locale.aliases to include only aliases to locales that are present on
> the system (e.g. in /usr/lib/locale). Then "locale -a"
> would give you
>
>
> de_DE.UTF-8@euro
> german
> fr_FR.UTF-8@euro
> french
>
> ..
> env LANG=french gvim <args>
> would work ...
/home/mool 116 % locale -a
locale: Command not found.
/home/mool 117 %
OK, so I'm running FreeBSD... I can do "ls /usr/share/locale", but it
doesn't show the aliases. I'm sure all this works better on Linux,
FreeBSD is a bit behind in the area of locales.
> In principle, I agree though, case sensitive; work should be aimed at
> making a GUI simple to use, and the CLI consistent and simple.
I still haven't heard a good reason why case sensitivity is useful.
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