On 7 August 2013, at 13:41, Kerin Millar wrote: > On 06/08/2013 23:42, Stroller wrote: >> >> On 6 August 2013, at 14:04, Kerin Millar wrote: >>> ... >>> If undefined, the value of LC_COLLATE is inherited from LANG. I'm not sure >>> that overriding it is particularly useful nowadays but it doesn't hurt. >> >> It's been a couple of years since I looked into this, but I'm given to >> believe that LANG should set all LC_ variables correctly, and that >> overriding them is frowned upon. > > As has been mentioned, there are valid reasons to want to override the > collation. Here is a concrete example: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-08/msg00537.html > > Strictly speaking, grep is correct to behave that way but it can be > confounding.
Linking also this answer, which you're aware of: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-08/msg00600.html This only goes to illustrate that you shouldn't be going overriding these willy-nilly without full awareness of why you're doing so and what you're doing. >> I had to do this myself because, due to a bug, the en_GB time formatting >> failed to display am or pm. I believe this should be fixed now. > > Presumably: > > a) LANG was defined inappropriately > b) LANG was defined appropriately but LC_TIME was defined otherwise > c) LC_ALL was defined, trumping all I'm having trouble parsing this reply, but perhaps you might find the full bug description helpful. I wrote about 1000 words on the subject there last year. It is the top Google hit for "en_gb am pm bug": http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3768 Stroller.
