On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 08:35:51AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:59:29AM +0200, Mirko Parthey wrote: > > Package: glibc-doc > > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22 > > > > LANGUAGE seems to have no effect unless LANG is set to something other > > than C. I would propose to document this behaviour in the libc reference > > manual, where LANGUAGE is explained. > > This bit I can obviously reproduce... > > > Related to this, the documentation claims that LANGUAGE is evaluated > > first, i.e. before any other variables defining the locale. I found out > > by experiment that LANGUAGE seems to be evaluated second-last, and takes > > precedence just over LANG. If this is correct, I would propose to change > > the documentation accordingly. > > But not this, do you have an example? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% LANG=en_US LANGUAGE=en_US:de_DE:en_US cat -h > cat: Ungültige Option -- h > ,,cat --help" gibt weitere Informationen. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% LANG=en_US LC_ALL=en_US LANGUAGE=en_US:de_DE:en_US cat -h > cat: Ungültige Option -- h > ,,cat --help" gibt weitere Informationen.
Sorry, please ignore the second part - I was actually just confused by the first problem again. I thought this was a valid example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LANG=en_GB LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en LC_MESSAGES=de_DE xmms --badoption xmms: Unbekannte Option »--badoption« [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LANG=en_GB LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en LC_MESSAGES=C xmms --badoption xmms: unrecognized option `--badoption' But it is not - I must not set the locale to C, by whatever means, otherwise LANGUAGE is ignored. Upon re-reading your first E-Mail, this is exactly what you said. :-) I had thought this behaviour was limited to LANG=C, but it isn't. When using LC_MESSAGES=en_GB instead of C, the behaviour matches the documentation, and LANGUAGE takes precedence: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LANG=en_GB LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en LC_MESSAGES=en_GB xmms --badoption xmms: Unbekannte Option »--badoption« So my bugreport reduces to the request for documentation about LANGUAGE being ignored in a C locale. Mirko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
