Re: [tlug] Re: Japanese in Slackware (8.x or 9.0)

[Tim Hurman <kano-tlug@example.com>]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Tobias Diedrich wrote:

> Tim Hurman wrote:
>
> > for instance I usually live in:
> >
> > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> > LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
>
> Why set LC_ALL when it doesn't make a difference?
> If you don't have one of the other LC_* envs set, the LC_ALL is
> redundant. And if you have one set, the set LC_* envs are redundant
> because they are never used anyway because of LC_ALL being set.
>

ok, I dont quite follow. I only ever set LANG and LC_ALL. If I do not set
any of then the locale is by default POSIX/C. Also if LC_ALL is set,
setting one of the LC_* variables does nothing. And from the man page,
LC_ALL overrides LANG. I however set this just in case of badly
written/buggy software. In theory, the bare minimum for Japanese input is
to just set LC_CTYPE. I just prefer to live safely and set LANG and LC_ALL
:)

Tim.

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