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Re: the description of LANGUAGE


On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 01:37:07PM +0800, Zhang Le wrote:
> On 01:20 Thu 04 Dec     , Petr Baudis wrote:
> >   Hi,
> > 
> > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 09:47:17PM +0800, Zhang Le wrote:
> > > Sorry, please take this one. Just did a little modification.
> > > 
> > > LANGUAGE:
> > > When determining the language (e.g. en or en_US) of a locale category (e.g.
> > > LC_MESSAGES), if the locale category is itself already set to a valid locale
> > 
> >   I think you should make clear this is only for the translation
> > purposes, and it _usually_ only affects LC_MESSAGES - exceptions are
> > rare, e.g.:
> > 
> > 	http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=dcgettext.*LC_[^M]
> 
> Thank you for pointing this out.
> LANGUAGE is used in gettext, so it should only affect LC_MESSAGES.

?

I just showed you why that is not the case.

> > > name (note, must be a locale name, a languge name won't work. e.g. 'en_US' is
> > > ok, but 'en' is not) in a system, no matter it is set explicitly or implicitly
> > > using LC_ALL or LANG, LANGUAGE's value will override this locale category's
> > > original setting. LANGUAGE's value is a colon separated list of language codes.
> > 
> >   This is unnecessarily entangled - the locale category must simply be
> > set to a valid locale different than C (POSIX).
> 
> Yeah, but someone may think LANGUAGE by itself will work, which is not correct.

I was addressing the complicated description of locale category setting.

> > Also, LANGUAGE's value is a list of locale names, not language codes.
> 
> Actually, this works:
> 1. first clear environment
> 2. LC_MESSAGES=zh_CN LC_CTYPE=zh_CN LANGUAGE=zh command
> 
> And please take a look at this:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/FAQ.html#localename

Ah, sorry, I must have mistested this.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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