Re: [tlug] Suse blues

[paul arenson <paul@example.com>]

On Thursday 04 March 2004 16:28, Shawn wrote:
> > To get this to work globally, you would need to put the LANG and the
> > LC_MESSAGES initializations in "the right place" but this is
> > distro-specific.



> >
> > The right place?  You don't mean in the terminal?
>
> according to http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/locales-sysconfig.html
>
> The system wide default values for the locale specific environment
> variables can be set in the file /etc/sysconfig/language


I see.....in the language file.




>
> For example if you want to make Japanese with UTF-8 encoding the system
> wide default for all locale categories and want to use the same default
> for the root account, you can put
>
>
>      RC_LANG="ja_JP.UTF-8"
>      RC_LC_ALL=""
>      RC_LC_MESSAGES=""
>      RC_LC_CTYPE=""
>      RC_LC_COLLATE=""
>      RC_LC_TIME=""
>      RC_LC_NUMERIC=""
>      RC_LC_MONETARY=""
>      ROOT_USES_LANG="yes"
>
> into /etc/sysconfig/language.
>
>
> Please note that:
>
> This file contains variables with the RC_ prefix added to the names of the
> locale specific environment variables and one additional variable
> ROOT_USES_LANG which can be set to ``yes'', ``no'' or ``ctype''. ``yes''
> means the root user gets the same locale settings by default as any other
> user, ``no'' means the root user will use the POSIX locale only, ``ctype''
> means the root user will get the same effective default value for LC_CTYPE
> as other users but use POSIX for all other language specific environment
> variables.
>
> > Do I actually open up the terminal (Konsole) and type
> >
> >   FIRST LINE  export LANG=ja_JP.eucJP in ~/.bashrc  ENTER KEY
> > SECOND LINE export LC_MESSAGES=en_US.iso8859-15
>
> see above
>
> --
Ok...seems to make sense.  


See that Lyle had some problem, so I will go an dtry to do the simpler, a 
normal install in Japanese and see what happens.   Then, if that is ok, I may 
just leave the Japanese as the main thing.  Whart better way to become more 
comfortable with Japanese than to have it in front of me.


Note to Lyle..no news to report.  I have a 13-14 hour work day......thank God. 
If I had more time to muck around with the computer, who knows WHAT damage I 
might do.

Anyway, thanks Shawn for the clarifiication.

Paul



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