1 Aug
2012
1 Aug
'12
10:11 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de> wrote:
Well, actually I would expect that the language is set by LANG and not by LC_MESSAGES. I would expect, and I guess this is what it's meant for, that just the output on stdout or stderr is affected by LC_MESSAGES. That is, that LC_MESSAGES only sets the console output of CLI programs, but not the language of the whole desktop environment like Xfce and all the GUI programs. What was the sense of LANG otherwise?
LANG simply acts as the /default value/ for all LC_* settings, so that you don't need to set 12 identical variables. LC_MESSAGES, as well as other LC_* variables, should have the same effect everywhere. -- Mantas Mikulėnas