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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Multilingual Support in Linux (and Locales)
Date: 20 Mar 2003 14:41:42 +0000
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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