documentation of the meaning and hierarchy of LANG, LANGUAGE and LC_ is scattered across a number of places which I agree is unfortunate. See bug 311558 for another example. I'd think that having it documented in only one place and have other manpages refer to that places would be the way to go.
** Changed in: gettext (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: gettext (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/872343 Title: setlocale should say that LANGUAGE is used before LANG To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gettext/+bug/872343/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs