Thanks Martin for raising this On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 12:57 AM Martin Osvald <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is a setup PR [1] proposing to move ~/.i18n to ~/.config/i18n. > > Historically, ~/.i18n has been sourced by login scripts to allow users to > override the system locale, which was previously configured in > /etc/sysconfig/i18n and is now configured in /etc/locale.conf. It is also > mentioned in the glibc documentation [2]. However, I have not found any > Fedora documentation that explicitly references this file. > I admit I had forgotten that ~/.i18n still exists... This raises the question of whether ~/.i18n is still needed today. With > systemd, users can set environment variables through > ~/.config/environment.d/*.conf (see man 5 environment.d), which could > serve the same purpose. > That might be good enough perhaps, I feel, if there are no downsides. : I wonder if a Fedora Change would be overkill - maybe given the low visibility. On the other hand (I am assuming it still works, but need to test) it is a breaking change of behavior. So giving any users a heads-up would be kinder than making them track it down themselves. Such a Change might also benefit RHEL 11. Jens
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