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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: query ip adress
From:       Uwe Thiem <uwe () uwix ! alt ! na>
Date:       2001-10-19 19:20:17
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On Friday 19 October 2001 15:55, Malte Starostik wrote:
> Am Friday 19 October 2001 10:51 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
> > Am Freitag, 19. Oktober 2001 05:55 schrieb Malte Starostik:
> > > LANGUAGE=C /sbin/ifconfig [device]
> >
> > Wrong. look at the output of locale to see what variables you can set,
> > LANGUAGE is not among them. LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LC_NUMERIC
> > are at least to set as they would ruin your parsing if set to something
> > else than C - and if ifconfig would care, it doesn't seem to me.
>
> Works for me (TM) though:
> malte@xray /home/malte $ locale
> LANG=de
> LC_CTYPE=de_DE
> LC_NUMERIC=de_DE
> LC_TIME=de_DE
> LC_COLLATE=de_DE
> LC_MONETARY=de_DE
> LC_MESSAGES=de_DE
> LC_ALL=
> malte@xray /home/malte $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0
> eth0       Linkverkapselung:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:21:22:A0:91
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Jeez. Who's doing these translations? Verkapselung? Really? Like in 
"verschissen", "vergessen", "verloren", "Vergehen"? This sounds like 
encapsulated and then thrown away.

>           inet addr:172.16.0.2  Bcast:172.16.0.255  Maske:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 Adr: fe80::200:21ff:fe22:a091/10 Gültigkeit:Verbindung
                                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is another hilarious translation. Why do translators abuse and rape 
their own languages on end? "Entlöschen", huh?

>           inet6 Adr: 3ffe:b80:24b:1:200:21ff:fe22:a091/64 Gültigkeit:Global
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
                                                                        ^^^
How about "MTE"? They gave up on translating here.

>           Empfangene Pakete:1305641 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 Überlauf:0
> Rahmen:0 Verschickte Packete:1374756 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 Überlauf:0
                                   ^^^^^^^
I like these "Packete"!

> Rahmen:0          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:100
>           Interrupt:9 Basisadresse:0x4000

This is even better than "Wahlhilfe" we once had for kppp. ;-)

Slightly OT, I admit.

Uwe

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