At 11:29 PM -0800 2/11/06, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >Judging from the answers I've got, other threads on this list, and what >I've seen on the web, locale is a very badly understood topic that >should be understood better. > >Therefor, I'm repeating these: > >> Questions >> >> (1) How is the locale set? It's easy to read it: just type "$ locale". >> (2) How does the locale relate to the environment variables LC_*? >> (3) How does the locale control the paper size? "$ locale" prints out a >> value for LC_PAPER, but "man 7 locale" doesn't refer to it. >> >> BTW: I was advised to "$ echo letter > /etc/papersize", to get groff to >> emit the right kind of output. It doesn't work. >> >> Also have been advised to edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n but it's not clear >> just what to put into it. Grepping around, I think that /etc/profile.d/lang.sh sets the locale from /etc/sysconfig/i18n and $HOME/.i18n (if it exists -- I don't have one). ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
