Anaconda needs new locale thinking. (was Re: How important are ISO standards to Fedora?)

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 23:37 +0100, Ola Thoresen wrote:
> Linus Walleij wrote:
> 
> > The important question to ask is whether there are apps/libs out there 
> > that get trouble unless the LC_* vars are actually different. glibc will 
> > likely survive, since it has all of these settings.
> > 
> 
> I've had these in my .bash_env for a few years now, and had no problems 
> so far:
> 
> declare -x LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
> declare -x LC_ALL=""
> declare -x LC_CTYPE="nb_NO.UTF-8"
> declare -x LC_NUMERIC="nb_NO.UTF-8"
> declare -x LC_TIME="nb_NO.UTF-8"
> declare -x LC_COLLATE="nb_NO.UTF-8"
> declare -x LC_MONETARY="nb_NO.UTF-8"
> declare -x LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> declare -x LC_PAPER="nb_NO.UTF-8"
> declare -x LC_NAME="nb_NO.UTF-8"
> declare -x LC_ADDRESS="nb_NO.UTF-8"
> declare -x LC_TELEPHONE="nb_NO.UTF-8"
> declare -x LC_MEASUREMENT="nb_NO.UTF-8"
> declare -x LC_IDENTIFICATION="nb_NO.UTF-8"
> 
> It does not fix everything, but it is better than nothing.
> (But I had to set the all manually, and it only works for my user ofcourse).

I've not doubt that with a little fiddling I could make a work around
for this too.

However, this should just work and I shouldn't have to fiddle.


R.
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