also sprach Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.31.0245 +0100]: > once i teach my robots to play soccer and my computer to play > hawaiian checkers, i will do it for you ;)
i have witnesses that you said this, you ambitious geek, you! > > do you know what locales are? > > obviously not well ... that's partially why i'm asking these > questions! oh, yeah. i forgot ;^> > > and look at the variable names to get some > > idea of what can be controlled with locales... > > jaja. so, i see now some of the things i'd been ignoring, like > LC_PAPER, LC_TELEPHONE, and LC_ADDRESS. my implicit question was > unclear: in what circumstances / applications / whatever are these > seemingly obscure locales actually used? the bash man page only > describes a few, not including the ones above, and the locale man page > only says really useless things like "LC_TELEPHONE: Telephone number > formats." bash is not really the best way to look for information on this, as locales supersede the shell. the shell is simply another program using locales. This: http://www.mozilla.org/docs/l10n/ulpFAQ.html might be a better start. > so, now i'm curious. aren't you always? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system
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