On 05/03/2008, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 06:54:50PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 02/03/2008, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks, but how to set them? > > > > > > > > > Short answer is not to set any of LC_* as system wide. > > > > I don't recall ever setting them. I don't even know how. > > > OK, I may have misinterpretted you. > > > > > Since I like console to use English (UTF-8 so en_US.UTF-8) and X to use > > > use several locales such as en_US.UTF-8 and ja_JP.UTF-8, I let gdm > > > change locale. If you want to run any program under fancy locale, you > > > can do it by: > > > > > > $ LANG=somelocale somecommand > > > > > > See more on > > > > http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch02.en.html#langvariable > > > http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch09.en.html#thelocale > > > > Very informative links, Osamu, but they explain how to set only the > > 'standard' locale of a user, not C. How is that set? Thanks! > > > Because C only suport 7 bit simple ASCII. It is good choice for > embedded system for its simplicity. > > C can not accomodate even umlauts and accents which you may even see in > English locale for name. If you want to insert some quotation in > hebrew, C can not handle it.
C in it's unaltered state may support only ASCII, but my C locale (somehow changed to utf-8) handles Hebrew just fine. I wish it wouldn't, that's the reason why I posted here. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
