Need tutoring: 'locale'

[Michael Hipp]

David A. Bandel wrote:

> 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.

Well, ok, if you say so. But I wasn't trying to argue that locale 
settings had to be system wide, I was assuming this would work like 
seemingly everything in *nix works (i.e. put settings in a config file, 
run something that knows what to do with the file. No implication that 
there can be only one such file per system.) And I'm still trying to 
figure out if this is different or I just don't know what file to start 
with; maybe the answer is in here:

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

Thanks. I'll go spelunking there and see if any clues will volunteer to 
hit me over the head.

Michael