Matthew Burgess wrote: > Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > >> So it's better to change the book to say "ISO-8859-1". > > Easy enough to do, added to my (ever growing) TODO for 6.1. > >> Also some people say it's better to remove LC_ALL (i.e. set only LANG) > > and I tend to agree with them now. >> >> Please do that before LFS 6.1 comes out. > > But then according to your post titled "[POST-6.1] Console script with > UTF-8 support" you state: > > "Don't forget to set LANG and LC_ALL properly in /etc/profile." > > So, which is it to be?
only LANG. I added LC_ALL to that statement only on the basis of its presence in the book at that moment. The situation is: 1) LANG that sets the default for all locale categories but can be overridden 2) LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, ... override LANG for their respective locale categories 3) LC_ALL overrides every other locale variable So setting LC_ALL by default is harmless, but it generates questions like "I want proper character classification, but still English messages. I have tried setting LC_MESSAGES to C but that doesn't work". The answer is that he has to unset LC_ALL. Sorry for that confusion. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
