Graham Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:54:49PM +0200, Nikolaus Schulz wrote:
> > "calendar -a" uses the locale from the environment for its output,
> > whatever that is.  If root runs it, it's root's locale; if cron runs
> > it, it's likely POSIX, or whatever is setup in the crontab.  It does,
> > however, completely ignore the locale of the user who owns the
> > calendar file it's processing. 
> 
> This is the difficult part though. How should calendar figure out the
> locale of the user it is sending mail to?

It could spawn a (login) shell, just like "su -" does.  Would this be
reasonable?  As I mentioned earlier, the "su" code looks non-trivial, at
least to me; but I haven't looked at it thoroughly. 

Nikolaus


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