On 12/20/19 6:09 PM, home user wrote:
(on Friday, Dec. 20, Samuel said)
> What is the significance of "en.user" and "cn.user",
The "cn.user" is used mostly for learning Chinese: vocabulary files,
flashcards (LibreOffice), and grammar exercises (text files and a C++
program).
The "en.user" is used for almost everything else.
> since those aren't real usernames.
They could be.
Well, I learned something. I didn't think you could use punctuation in
a username.
> You also say that both accounts have the same language settings.
> What is different between them?
The difference, why I made more than one account, is to separate by
use. As far as I know, there are no other differences other than the
personal directories and files within them.
What does "localectl" and "locale" show in each account?
fyi
When I got this system (early 2013), I did not know that there was no
need to have separate accounts to use more than one language. I thought
that an account using Chinese would also have Chinese prompts, messages,
application/tool names, GUIs, titles, etc. Since I was a beginner with
Chinese (and still am!), I made the separate accounts so I would only
have to wrestle with Chinese prompts, messages, application/tool names,
GUIs, titles, etc. in one account, and have an English-only account for
financial work, communication, office, shopping, internet, etc. I later
in 2013 learned from Ed Greshko that two accounts was not necessary,
that I could use both languages in one account, and have English-only
for prompts, etc. in that one account. By then I realized that
maintaining the two accounts for the two categories of use is
convenient, so I kept and still use both accounts. (But what Ed taught
me did solve my problem with prompt, etc. language!)
I'm guessing that you've somehow got a different font in the one
account. I know in the past if I got an email or some text with a
Chinese or similar character encoding, the English characters would look
as you described them.
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