Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2011-07-07 18:46:38 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> If ssh were to transmit it and let it
>> override /etc/default/locale, wouldn't sending LANGUAGE="" work?
>
> Only if LANGUAGE is set.
True. In particular, if the user doesn't know to defend against a
remote LANGUAG
On 2011-07-07 19:30:38 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > My settings come from the installation. /etc/default/locale was:
> >
> > # File generated by update-locale
> > #LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
> >
> > (I only added a LC_TIME=en_DK since, hoping it would be taken into
> > account
On 2011-07-07 18:46:38 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Now, if LANGUAGE is set in /etc/default/locale, this change may not
> > solve the problem due to:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313317
>
> Wow. The upstream discussion went nowhere fast.
Hi again,
One more quick comment.
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> My settings come from the installation. /etc/default/locale was:
>
> # File generated by update-locale
> #LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
> LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
>
> (I only added a LC_TIME=en_DK since, hoping it would be taken into
> account for the
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> My settings come from the installation. /etc/default/locale was:
>
> # File generated by update-locale
> #LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
> LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
Ah. localechooser sets LANGUAGE up, and then update-locale from the
"locales" package preserves it.
The weird part is that
Hi Jonathan,
On 2011-07-05 22:22:51 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 1. On my local machine, I could not reproduce the same effect. That's
>probably because no default locale is configured here. After making
>the default locale de_DE.UTF-8 using "dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales",
>/etc
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 4. Despite what the gettext manual[*] says, setting LANG does not cause
>LANGUAGE to take effect. This is another bug, as far as I can tell.
>
> $ LANG=en_US LANGUAGE=de_DE cp
> cp: missing file operand
> Try `cp --help' for more information.
The ab
Hi Vincent,
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> LANGUAGE=
[...]
> LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR
[...]
> ypig% ssh localhost locale
> Connected to ypig (from ::1)
> LANG=POSIX
> LANGUAGE=en_US:en
[...]
> LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR
[...]
> LC_ALL=
[...]
> The problem is that the system sets LANGUAGE in the user's back, so
> that
Package: libc6
Version: 2.13-10
Severity: normal
The current LANGUAGE design is broken. Here an example:
ypig% locale
LANG=POSIX
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME=en_DK
LC_COLLATE=POSIX
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="
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