Mark Knecht wrote:
You may be correct about setting all of this in 02locale. I noticed
that the Gentoo formatting stuff for vi is treating LC_ALL and
LC_COLLATE differently than LINGUAS. The manual seems to say set
system wide stuff in 02locale and user stuff in your own account.
They are different.
LINGUAS is a build-time hint for localized programs that lists which
languages you want translations for. It has no effect at run-time other
than ensuring that your selected languages are available.
The LC_* variables, and LANG, are run-time settings that tell the C
library which locale to use. LC_COLLATE, for example, tells vi how to
sort things alphabetically.
Just as an aside, I see frequent warnings not to set LC_ALL because it's
"dangerous", but that seems like a vast overreaction to me. LC_ALL is a
global setting that overrides all of the other LC_ variables with a
single setting. The "danger" is that you cannot then individually
override the behavior, say to use a different currency or sorting
format, but IMO the people who need to do that are the exception, and
would clearly know how to do it.
For a single user system with a single locale where all the LC_*
variables have the same value anyway, setting LC_ALL to "en_US" and
settings the other half-dozen LC_* variables to "en_US" has the same effect.
