Re: Locale names for glibc

1998-11-03 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Petr Kolar wrote: >There is the question how to set locale's environment variables. If you > use short form (cs, fr, de, ...) the glibc locale files from cs_CZ, fr_FR, > etc. will be ignored. If you use longer form (cs_CZ, fr_FR, de_DE), the > locales are taken from xx_XX

Locale names for glibc

1998-11-03 Thread Petr Kolar
There is a (known?) locale chaos - glibc locales are in directories with names cs_CZ, fr_FR, fr_BE, de_DE etc. (under /usr/share/locale), while localized program messages are in cs, fr, de, etc.. That is clear that some languages are spoken in several countries, thus while e.g. French sorting w