Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)

[Xavier Bestel]

Le dimanche 07 janvier 2007 à 21:40 +0100, Jan Engelhardt a écrit :
> >On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 15:05:53 -0500
> >Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> If there's something I should be doing when I commit that I'm not,
> >> I'll be happy to change my scripts.  My $LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8
> >> which should DTRT to the best of my knowledge, but clearly, that isn't
> >> the case.
> 
> No, LC_CTYPE defines what charset you use. (I may be wrong, though.)

IIRC LANG is a superset for all LC_* - i.e. if only LANG is defined, it
sets all your locales, but you can individually set the charset, numeric
format, date format, etc.

	Xav


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