On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Harald Meland &lt;<a href="mailto:harald.meland@usit.uio.no">harald.meland@usit.uio.no</a>&gt; wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
[John Arbash Meinel]<br>
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&gt; I don&#39;t know that the actual value matters a whole lot,<br>
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</div>I was under the impression that it does, actually. &nbsp;You can select any<br>
one of the installed locales, as listed by &quot;locale -a&quot;; but if you try<br>
to use a value that isn&#39;t among your installed locales, all bets are<br>
off:<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Thanks, everyone, for your inputs. I tried a lot of possible values for $LANG, to no avail:<br><br>LANG=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;<br>LC_COLLATE=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;<br>LC_CTYPE=&quot;UTF-8&quot;<br>
LC_MESSAGES=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;<br>LC_MONETARY=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;<br>LC_NUMERIC=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;<br>LC_TIME=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;<br>LC_ALL=<br><br>LANG=&quot;en.UTF-8&quot;<br>LC_COLLATE=&quot;C&quot;<br>
LC_CTYPE=&quot;C&quot;<br>LC_MESSAGES=&quot;C&quot;<br>LC_MONETARY=&quot;C&quot;<br>LC_NUMERIC=&quot;C&quot;<br>LC_TIME=&quot;C&quot;<br>LC_ALL=<br><br>LANG=&quot;en_GB.UTF-8&quot;<br>LC_COLLATE=&quot;en_GB.UTF-8&quot;<br>
LC_CTYPE=&quot;UTF-8&quot;<br>LC_MESSAGES=&quot;en_GB.UTF-8&quot;<br>LC_MONETARY=&quot;en_GB.UTF-8&quot;<br>LC_NUMERIC=&quot;en_GB.UTF-8&quot;<br>LC_TIME=&quot;en_GB.UTF-8&quot;<br>LC_ALL=<br><br>LANG=&quot;C&quot;<br>LC_COLLATE=&quot;C&quot;<br>
LC_CTYPE=&quot;UTF-8&quot;<br>LC_MESSAGES=&quot;C&quot;<br>LC_MONETARY=&quot;C&quot;<br>LC_NUMERIC=&quot;C&quot;<br>LC_TIME=&quot;C&quot;<br>LC_ALL=<br><br>(I only set $LANG, but apparently everything else gets set when I do. I&#39;m not sure if it&#39;s normal behavior or not, but there you go.)<br>
<br>All those combinations don&#39;t work. I do have &quot;en&quot;, &quot;en_US&quot;, &quot;en_GB&quot; installed. Partial output of locale -a is:<br><br>en_GB<br>en_GB.ISO8859-1<br>en_GB.ISO8859-15<br>en_GB.US-ASCII<br>
en_GB.UTF-8<br>...<br>en_US<br>en_US.ISO8859-1<br>en_US.ISO8859-15<br>en_US.US-ASCII<br>en_US.UTF-8<br><br>I don&#39;t see any standalone &quot;en&quot;, but I do see a standalone &quot;C&quot;. However, that last one still doesn&#39;t work.<br>
<br>Any ideas? Thanks!<br><br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Angela Sabas, web enthusiast and writer<br><a href="http://indisguise.org">http://indisguise.org</a> for my work<br><a href="http://seasonalplume.net">http://seasonalplume.net</a> for my writing