Need tutoring: 'locale'

[Michael Hipp]

Kurt Wall wrote:

> I take it you're having a specific problem?

No. Well, sort of. I need to explain how to change certain settings for 
a some software and a document I'm writing.

> I'm not going to go into all the gory details here, and you should be
> able to deciper some of the locale settings based on their names. However,
> LC_ALL can be used to set all of the LC_* variables. The simplest way
> to change locale is to modify the LANG variable. So, if I say `LANG=en_UK',
> then I get:

So does this not work in the typical *Nix fashion (i.e. edit a config 
file, maybe run something to process the altered file, restart something)?

You seem to be changing things on the fly with 'locale -v' and the input 
is env variables rather than a file. So where do the permanent settings 
live and why wouldn't I go there to change things?

(Sorry for machine gun questions.)

> Put aside any dislike you have for GNU's Texinfo system ...

Now you're *really* asking a lot :-)

Thanks for the help, I'm sure I'll get it eventually,
Michael