On Monday 07 October 2002 19:55, Matt Price wrote: > Hi, > > can someone explain to me what locales are for and how to set them? > I'm having some problems in openoffice which seem to be related to > locale issues... there's a man entry for "setlocale", which I would > have thought to have been the right command, but debian doesn't find > the command when I lok for it (even as sudo). in any case, I don't > really understnad the locale thing and would love to know more about > what its function is supposed to be. thaqnksm uch, > matt
locales is how Linux (and other Unix systems) allow programs to display text in different languages. setlocale is in man3 which means it is a function call in the standard library, not a stand alone program. Perhaps you could send the errors you are receiving to this list and someone here might know the solution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
