Need tutoring: 'locale'

[Kurt Wall]

Consuming 1.1K bytes, Michael Hipp blathered:
> 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:

You have, I suppose, three options. 
1) Set the locale system-wide in /etc/profile or its equivalent. 
2) Set the locale on a per-user basis in $HOME/.profile (($LANG or 
   $LC_ALL) or its equivalent .
3) Programmatically, use the C library's facilities for querying
   and modifying the locale information, then use the same facilities
   to make sure that your program honors the preferred locale.

Kurt
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