On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote: > Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:04:59 -0800 (PST) > From: Paul Heinlein <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > To: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>, > "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Appropriate LANG locale > > On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> I've had locale set as 'C' for a long time. When I changed it to >> something different (e.g., en_US.utf-8) some displays were >> incorrect. (I don't recall which ones because it's been a while.) >> Anyway, ... >> >> I would like to use a locale that displays accented characters in >> alpine messages. In ~/.bash_profile I exported LANG=en_US.utf-8, >> then sourced the file. The collation order remained 'C', but all >> other variables were changed. >> >> Is this the locale I want to use? > > I usually do > > LANG="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="C" > > I get the old-fashioned ASCII sort ordering, can still get unicode in > terminal windows, etc. > > -- > Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/
This is my complete set of locale environment variables: LANG=german LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.utf8 LC_PAPER=de_DE.utf8 GDM_LANG=de_DE.utf8 To make it appropriate for English, I think you'd want to do the following (note the difference with LANG): LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 GDM_LANG=en_US.utf8 I guess I don't set LC_COLLATE; perhaps I better had. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
