From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Muhammad Asif <mdasif@wol.net.pk>
Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Multilingual Support in Linux (and Locales)
Date: 20 Mar 2003 14:41:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1048171301.2410.2.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030320154248.023a9c38@10.10.10.10>
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 11:04, Muhammad Asif wrote:
> thx for yr response Tom.
>
> Let me elaborate my concerns a bit more.
>
> I know very little about Linux but i think there are same Locales available
> in Linux now. Locale specific environment variables like LC_CTYPE,
> LC_COLLATE,LC_MONETARY,LC_NUMERIC etc
> can be set in Linux. Does setting these variables will cause the data like
> Currency , Thousands marks, month names etc etc in all application to be
> represented in Locale format ? and this can be done without even restarting
> machine. Thus these Locale variables are alternate to Regional settings in
> Windows? Please correct me where i am wrong.
They are dynamic and can be set per application. Eg I can type
LANG=fr gnome-terminal &
and get a french terminal on an otherwise English desktop
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-20 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-20 9:16 Multilingual Support in Linux Muhammad Asif
2003-03-20 10:26 ` tom potts
2003-03-20 11:04 ` Multilingual Support in Linux (and Locales) Muhammad Asif
2003-03-20 14:41 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-03-20 14:53 ` Multilingual Support in Linux Alan Cox
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