On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:02:28PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
[...]
> Yes, I realize all this now. The bug is that I can't figure _any_ of
> this out from the manual.
Of course I have no problem with this manual being improved, and nobody
will request my opinion anyway ;)
My inability to hav
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:30:16PM +0200, I wrote:
> Now compare
> $ env - LANG=ja_JP LANGUAGE=de_DE cat -h
> cat: Ung«ältige Option -- h
> ,,cat --help¡È gibt weitere Informationen.
> $ env - LANG=fr_FR LANGUAGE=de_DE cat -h
> cat: Ungültige Option -- h
> ,,cat --help" gibt weitere Inf
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:30:16PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> Basically the LANGUAGE variable is a GNU extension to allow displaying
> messages in several languages, so that untranslated messages for your
> favorite language can be displayed with other languages than English.
> This is not a rep
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 08:24:34PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
[...]
> > > They remain as C.
> >
> > Yes, LANGUAGE is only checked to select message catalogs, nothing else.
>
> This is also not documented. And it's surprising - to me anyway. The
> documentation presents it as an extension t
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:48:55PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% env - LANG=de_DE cat -h
> > cat: Ungültige Option -- h
> > ,,cat --help" gibt weitere Informationen.
> >
> > With just LANG set, LC_MESSAGES and LC_CTYPE are inferred from LANG.
>
> Sure, this is the well est
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 05:17:48PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 10:43:41PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 04:56:18PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > Except that the problem is that (if everything but LANGUAGE is unset)
> > > I would have e
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 10:43:41PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 04:56:18PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Except that the problem is that (if everything but LANGUAGE is unset)
> > I would have expected LANGUAGE to set LC_MESSAGES, and it doesn't.
>
> This situation s
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 04:56:18PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:59:29AM +0200, Mirko Parthey wrote:
> > > Package: glibc-doc
> > > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
> > >
> > > LANGUAGE seems to have no effect unless LANG is set to something other
> > > than C. I would propos
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:03:25PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:59:29AM +0200, Mirko Parthey wrote:
> > Package: glibc-doc
> > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
> >
> > LANGUAGE seems to have no effect unless LANG is set to something other
> > than C. I would propose to document th
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:59:29AM +0200, Mirko Parthey wrote:
> Package: glibc-doc
> Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
>
> LANGUAGE seems to have no effect unless LANG is set to something other
> than C. I would propose to document this behaviour in the libc reference
> manual, where LANGUAGE is explained.
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 08:35:51AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:59:29AM +0200, Mirko Parthey wrote:
> > Package: glibc-doc
> > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
> >
> > LANGUAGE seems to have no effect unless LANG is set to something other
> > than C. I would propose to documen
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:59:29AM +0200, Mirko Parthey wrote:
> Package: glibc-doc
> Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
>
> LANGUAGE seems to have no effect unless LANG is set to something other
> than C. I would propose to document this behaviour in the libc reference
> manual, where LANGUAGE is explained.
Package: glibc-doc
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
LANGUAGE seems to have no effect unless LANG is set to something other
than C. I would propose to document this behaviour in the libc reference
manual, where LANGUAGE is explained.
Related to this, the documentation claims that LANGUAGE is evaluated
first,
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