On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Baldev Soor wrote: > I am new to Cygwin and while browsing some of the mailing lists I came > across your name.
That's great, but please refrain from sending personal mail to Cygwin developers and users unless specifically requested. The policy of the Cygwin community is that all Cygwin-related questions should go to the main Cygwin mailing list, which can provide much more expertise than any one person separately. For your convenience, I've set the "Reply-To:" appropriately. > Perhaps you can help me: > > 1. In Unix, I can issue the command "locale" and get indication of what the > LANG=, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_NUMERIC, LC-MONETARY, LC_TIME, LC_MESSAGES, > and LC_ALL are set to. Is this support in Cygwin? A search for "bin/locale" on <http://cygwin.com/packages/> returns no results, which leads me to believe that the "locale" command is not present in Cygwin. > 2. In Unix, I can issue "export LANG=en_US " to change the locale settings. > Is this supported in Cygwin? > > Any help is appreciated. > Regards, > Baldev. The man page for "setlocale" states that the current implementation is minimal and doesn't support any locale values except 'C'. However, the gettext package does provide this functionality. So, the answer is, if the application uses gettext, it will be sensitive to the LC_* settings. To find out which applications in your installation use gettext for messages, run find /usr/share/locale -name \*.mo | sed 's,.*/LC_MESSAGES/,,' | sort -u To find out which locale values a particular application supports, first find out which package the application belongs to by running cygcheck -f /bin/app # e.g., cygcheck -f /bin/diff and then run the following, replacing PKGNAME by the name of the package from the above command echo `find /usr/share/locale -name PKGNAME.mo | sed -e 's,^/usr/share/locale/,,' -e 's,/LC_MESSAGES/.*,,'` Hopefully, Chuck Wilson (the gettext maintainer) will correct me if I'm wrong. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
