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Re: suggestion (was Re: 1.7.7: Localization does not follow the language of the OS)
Am 12.01.2011 10:59, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Jan 12 01:50, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> an interresting registry entry would be :
>>
>> /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/International/LocaleName
>>
>> in france, under vista, it's fr-FR which is easy to translate to
>> fr_FR.UTF-8...
>>
>> how about to integrate something like this in lang.sh :
>>
>> [ -n "${LC_ALL:-${LC_CTYPE:-$LANG}}" ] && return
>
> The official way to set the locale is to use the locale(1) tool, see the
> User's Guide http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#locale
>
> export LANG=`locale -u` setenv LANG `locale -u`
> export LANG=`locale -s` setenv LANG `locale -s`
Everybody using POSIX shell syntax (the left column) should consider using
$(...) command substitution instead of the obsolete backticks `...`. The former
mixes properly with quoting, so to get into the right habit and set the proper
example:
export LANG="$(locale -uU)" # (or -sU for system default locale)
--
Matthias Andree
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