From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 17 10:43:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mout1.freenet.de (mout1.freenet.de [62.104.201.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2E937B804 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:43:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netchild@leidinger.net) Received: from [62.104.201.6] (helo=mx0.freenet.de) by mout1.freenet.de with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12LVto-0006v2-00; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:43:36 +0100 Received: from [213.6.223.183] (helo=Magelan.Leidinger.net) by mx0.freenet.de with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12LVtm-0007eW-00; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:43:35 +0100 Received: from Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA20541; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:32:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from netchild@Leidinger.net) Message-Id: <200002171832.TAA20541@Magelan.Leidinger.net> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:32:24 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: feedback on CD install of 4.0-RC2 To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <7327.950809955@zippy.cdrom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17 Feb, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: [Cc stripped] >> o Finally, again, it seems to me that the skeleton .cshrc, .profile, >> etc. files that are used for accounts creating during install should have the >> following variables set: >> >> setenv LC_ALL en_US.ISO_8859-1 >> setenv LC_CTYPE en_US.ISO_8859-1 >> setenv LANG en_US.ISO_8859-1 > > This is a question for the I18N folks; I don't even try to puzzle out > the various quirks of locale settings these days. :) IMHO sysinstall or motd should print a little note about the possibility to set those variables, so Jordan hasn't to mess with them (e.g. for de_DE one wants to add LC_NUMERIC=C because every lazy script/program which asks for floats and processes them would break [123.4 -> 123,4]). ^ ^ Bye, Alexander. -- Been there, done that, can't remember why... http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander+Home @ Leidinger.net Key fingerprint = 7423 F3E6 3A7E B334 A9CC B10A 1F5F 130A A638 6E7E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message