[arch-general] locale.conf

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Wed Aug 1 08:48:02 EDT 2012


Am 01.08.2012 14:35, schrieb Heiko Baums:
> Am Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:10:14 +0200
> schrieb Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>:
> 
>> I don't know why you set it, but I find LC_COLLATE=C extremely
>> annoying.
>>
>> If you want an English speaking system, but live in Switzerland, I
>> recommend this:
>>
>> LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8
>> LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> 
> You should be careful with LC_MESSAGES if you use desktop environments
> which don't have their own language setting like Xfce.

?????

> They use
> LC_MESSAGES to set their language.

Of course, that's the point of LC_MESSAGES. What else would it do?


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