[arch-general] locale.conf

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Heiko Baums <lists at 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.

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Mantas Mikulėnas