What is the point of having all these different variables, if they all 
are required to be set to the same locale? I mean then one variable 
would suffice. Why is it necessary for e to set LC_ALL?

That aside, I would be happy if you could point me to the config file(s) 
I need to screw with.

On 04.01.2011 00:50, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:36:18 +0100 Oliver Arnold<[email protected]>  said:
>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>> Setting the LC_ALL variable seems to be the problem, because it
>> overrides all LC_* environment variables with the given value.
>>
>> Is there a way to prevent e from changing the LC_ALL variable?
>> (Wouldn't it actually make more sense if e didn't change the LC_ALL
>> variable at all?)
>
> no it wouldn't make sense. LC_ALL is set so ... locale applies... to... all. e
> doesn't have fine-grained locale support (eg locale x for time. locale y for
> money, locale z for paper etc.). as mentioned below - once a lang is selected
> it's set for the env vars listed and there is no way to unset it in the gui
> (you'd have to screw with config files - and then you'd have to rely on your
> own env vars being set before e runs).
>
>> On 03.01.2011 12:31, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
>>> On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:04:25 +0100 Oliver Arnold<[email protected]>   said:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I set LC_TIME to a different locale than the rest of the locale settings
>>>> (so that thunderbird displays my local time format). When I open a xterm
>>>> window under xfce4 the locale settings look like that:
>>>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>>> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>> LC_TIME=de_DE.utf8
>>>> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>> LC_ALL=
>>>>
>>>> But when I start E17 and open a xterm window the LC_TIME variable is set
>>>> to en_US.UTF-8. Is this behaviour intentionally? Is there a way to make
>>>> this work?
>>>
>>> e doesnt touch that env var. it ONLy sets the following:
>>>
>>> LC_MESSAGES
>>> LANGUAGE
>>> LC_ALL
>>> LANG
>>>
>>> it will only set them if a language is selected in e's lang settings (as
>>> such tho.. once you set a lang it will always set it - no way to unselect
>>> one). so something else playes with your LC_TIME - not e (grep e for
>>> LC_TIME and see).
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Oliver
>>
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