From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 22 18:17:48 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA04439 for current-outgoing; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 18:17:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [193.125.152.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id SAA04434 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 18:17:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA05065 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Mon, 23 Dec 1996 05:05:37 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Mon, 23 Dec 96 05:05:37 +0300 Received: from localhost (nagual.ru [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.ru (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id EAA01398; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 04:50:41 +0300 (MSK) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 04:50:41 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7=2C_Andrey_Chernov?= To: David Nugent Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Confused about locale In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, David Nugent wrote: > > 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. Not so quick, it will be nice if user can change his preferences easily. > > 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". What is difficult here? As man says "class" is pointer to termcap-style attributes. Do you mean that they must be unchangeable by user? -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/