From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gioele Barabucci Subject: locale({1,5}) should describe LANG and LANGUAGE Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:18:03 +0200 Message-ID: <4E4BCD9B.1030705@svario.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: submit-61a8vm9lEZVf4u+23C9RwQ@public.gmane.org, mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Package: manpages Version: 3.23 The man page for `locale(1)` do not describe the LANG and LANGUAGE environment variables. `environ(7)` describes only LANG and refers to `locale(5)` for further explaination. `locale(5)` do not describe neither LANG or LANGUAGE. Both LANG and LANGUAGE are described in LSB 4.0, although not in depth. Shouldn't the meaning and the format of LANG and LANGUAGE and the difference between these two environment variables be explained in `locale` manpages? Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html