Re: LC_ALL vs LANG env. variables

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:13:37PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> as such via http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/. Hope this helped ... :)
> 
> "Thomas E. Dickey" wrote on 2003-03-05 10:31 UTC:
> > isn't $LANG a GNU-specific variable?
> 
> LANG is defined by both POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1) and ISO C.
> 
> The POSIX definition of the i18n environment variables is crucial
> reading for anyone with an interest in locales:
> 
>   http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html#tag_08_02
> 
> LANGUAGE is a GNU extension in which a priority list of locales can be
> specified, separated by colons. It is an alternative to the LC_MESSAGES
> defined by POSIX and only evaluated if an application uses gettext.
> Read the Locales chapter in "info libc" for details. 

thanks for the correction (too early to recall it properly).

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