Uriel <ur...@berlinblue.org> writes: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:56 PM, nico <n...@lifeisabug.com> wrote: >> Hmm, actually I never had problems setting the locale. I always have LANG >> and LC_MESSAGES set to en_US.UTF-8 so language is still english and the >> other variables are set to de_DE.UTF-8 so information many apps do rely on >> like paper size, currency, punctuation (the fail in my case), address format >> and stuff like that is correct. So I'm just going to use a different uptime >> parsing method or is anyone having a better idea? > > Again, stop trying to 'use' the PoSix locale system for anything, it > is completely broken and totally antithetical to how Unix is designed > to work. > > An option would be to use p9p's user space instead of the usual GNU > crap.
What should you do if you don't want all your programs to write brain-dead US units and punctuation? -- \ Troels /\ Henriksen
