On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>
>> Is there some package to be installed that allows en_CA.ISO8859-1 to
>> be specified in /etc/default/init or via simple shell environment
>> variables ?
>>
>> for example :
>>
>> $ cat /etc/default/init
>> #
>> # Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
>> # Use is subject to license terms.
>> #
>> # CDDL HEADER START
>> # <snip>
>> # CDDL HEADER END
>> #
>> #ident "@(#)init.dfl 1.8 05/06/08 SMI"
>> #
>> # This file is /etc/default/init. /etc/TIMEZONE is a symlink to this file.
>> # This file looks like a shell script, but it is not. To maintain
>> # compatibility with old versions of /etc/TIMEZONE, some shell constructs
>> # (i.e., export commands) are allowed in this file, but are ignored.
>> #
>> # Lines of this file should be of the form VAR=value, where VAR is one of
>> # TZ, LANG, CMASK, or any of the LC_* environment variables. value may
>> # be enclosed in double quotes (") or single quotes (').
>> #
>> TZ=Canada/Eastern
>> #TZ=GMT0
>> CMASK=027
>> #LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>> LANG=C
>> LC_ALL=C
>> LC_COLLATE=en_CA.ISO8859-1
>> LC_CTYPE=en_CA.ISO8859-1
>> LC_MESSAGES=C
>> LC_MONETARY=en_CA.ISO8859-1
>> LC_NUMERIC=en_CA.ISO8859-1
>
> Erm... this /etc/default/init won't work as expected since it sets a
> wild mixture of LANG/LC_*-variables which partially override each other.
> The basic odering is:
> 1. LANG sets the locale globally
> 2. All LC_* variables except LC_ALL override LANG
> 3. LC_ALL overrides all other settings, including LC_*, LANG and builtin
> settings
I thank thee, my good friend, for the further edification and the
gentle brick to the head. In fact, I was experimenting and rebooting
and messing with that file over and over just to see what was
supported and what was not.
Dennis
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