[arch-general] locale.conf

[fredbezies]

2012/8/1 Arno Gaboury <arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com>:
> Dear list,
>
> even after reading all wiki and man, I am still confused about how to
> write locale.conf after recent upgrades.
> Here are the 6 locales enabled in locale.gen:
> fr_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8
> fr_CH ISO-8859-1
> fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
> fr_FR ISO-8859-1
> fr_FR at euro ISO-8859-15
> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> en_US ISO-8859-1
>
> My Arch is in english, and I live in Switzerland and read documents in
> english, french and "swiss" french. Still, I am not sure if I need to
> enable all these locales.
>
> I have NO IDEA how to write correctly all these locales in locale.conf.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Regards.

If you want to have a french speaking system, just set up you
locale.conf this way :

LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C

An english speaking system ?

LANG= en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C

Hope it helps :)

And don't forget to run locale-gen in order to get locale files generated.

-- 
Frederic Bezies
fredbezies at gmail.com