Need tutoring: 'locale'

[David A. Bandel]

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On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 23:45:08 -0600
Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:

> Kurt Wall wrote:
> 

[snip]

> 
> 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)?

This _is_ *nix fashon.  Things like locale settings are normally
user-specific.  Yes, a system may be set up to run all in Spanish, but
some users may be French, English, German, etc.  One of my clients,
Skanska, a Swedish company, has a lot of mixed Swedish and Spanish
workers.  Imagine forcing them all to work in one or the other language
exclusively?  Well, half of them would be happy.

> 
> 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?

permanent settings live in:
/etc/profile -- for system-wide junk
$HOME/.profile or $HOME/.bashrc|.cshrc|... for user-specific junk.

> 
> (Sorry for machine gun questions.)
> 
> > Put aside any dislike you have for GNU's Texinfo system ...
> 
> Now you're *really* asking a lot :-)

I'd have to reinstall that crap myself, and have no intention to.  Real
documentation is done with DocBook (sgml), not info.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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