Unable to set LC_COLLATE system-wide

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 14:34:45 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 15:19 +0100, John Horne wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:41 +0100, John Horne wrote:
> > > I have noticed that despite setting both LC_COLLATE and LANG in
> > > the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file, it seems that the LC_COLLATE does not
> > > get set for normal users, but does get set for root.
> > 
> > Did you reboot?
> > 
> Yup.

OK, just checking.

The action appears to be in the file /etc/profile.d/lang.sh, where there
is a check for $HOME/.i18n. If this exists it's sourced, except that
$LANG is preserved. Then there's a bunch of other special cases which
you would need to pore over. Of course if the user doesn't have a
$HOME/.i18n file it just sets some standard defaults.

I don't know if any of this explains what you're seeing.

poc




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