Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 03:47:44 +1100 From: davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) To: ache@nagual.ru Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Confused about locale Message-ID: <Mutt.19961222034744.davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961221182006.627A-100000@nagual.ru>; from ????????????????????????????? on Dec 21, 1996 18:30:16 %2B0300 References: <Mutt.19961222014909.davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au> <Pine.BSF.3.95.961221182006.627A-100000@nagual.ru>
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> About proposed implementation: > /etc/LANG breaks POSIX. POSIX describes behaviour with and without > environment variables exactly and specify default as "C" without > env. variables, so env. variables must exists in any case. Drats. :-) > About idea: > I dislike idea of "system default" locale, I like idea of "user > default" locale instead! Ok. There will be a way of achieving this shortly via login.conf. > There must be some field into passwd which indicates current user > startup locale which must be changeable by user via chpass. The last part is more difficult. But the field is already there in "class". > > I haven't yet looked into what changes may be involved, but > > they should be small and confined entirely (afaik) to libc. > > It is a very big mistake to run daemons with any locale != "C", > some of them can even call setlocale(...,"") or check "LANG", etc > variables, X11 f.e. Ok, thanks for the feedback. Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freefall.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/
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