Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 5/11/2011 6:51 PM, Dale wrote:
Does this look more better?
root@fireball / # locale
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF8"
LC_PAPER, is that like paper in my printer? What the heck
does it want my phone number, address and other stuff for?
Some of that I get but some is just plain nosy. O_O
These are all proposed, but ultimately rejected, POSIX extensions to
hold other standard, region-specific settings. glibc grabbed onto them
when the latest POSIX was still in draft status and implemented them.
LC_PAPER is one of a few places that holds the default paper sizes (I
think Debian has an /etc/papersize or some such). It's kinda silly,
since "en_US" isn't a paper size, but roughly speaking, en_US =
"8.5x11 letter" and everything else = "A4".
The others are for tracking: proper name format (e.g. family name
first or last); postal address format; telephone number format (local,
international, etc); units of measurement (imperial vs. metric); and
the standards that govern the rest of the formats. Support for them
is pretty sketchy and you can probably safely ignore them :)
--Mike
I wouldn't mind setting them myself. It may not matter much right now
but we all know how things change. Going to see what Google can find.
Thanks.
Dale
:-) :-)
