From kde-core-devel  Thu Sep 28 12:24:56 2000
From: Hans Petter Bieker <bieker () stud ! ntnu ! no>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:24:56 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: locale setting in startkde
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=97014379622568

On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel wrote:

> this is a little patch that reads the country and locale information from the 
> kdeglobals file and exports the LANG and LC_ALL env vars accordingly.
> I only tested it with German, where it works well. Any comments? Would it be 
> a good idea to add it to startkde?

Well, it's wrong. :-)

You can't set LC_ALL to "country" because LC_ALL expects something in the
format lang_ZONE.CHARSET. ZONE is the same as country.

And you can't really use the language and the country because in
some cases it looks like this: no_NY, zh_CN.GB2312, zh_TW.Big5 etc

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