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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2007-06-03 23:15:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2009-06-23 12:14:53 +0200 |
| commit | edb82ac3b6d28406507773a24d05de05295d190e (patch) | |
| tree | a670a028e9a49bc8cb257f40c328aa33fa2e2071 /gettext-runtime/doc | |
| parent | c899cdea5d6c3ec00f1422bfca61aba3743c509a (diff) | |
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Fix doc: sometimes setting LANG has no effect...
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| -rw-r--r-- | gettext-runtime/doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gettext-runtime/doc/nls.texi | 5 |
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diff --git a/gettext-runtime/doc/ChangeLog b/gettext-runtime/doc/ChangeLog index 7c20408..a1960d1 100644 --- a/gettext-runtime/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gettext-runtime/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2007-06-03 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + * nls.texi (Using This Package): Recommend also to unset LC_ALL etc. + Reported by Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>. + 2006-11-27 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> * gettext-0.16.1 released. diff --git a/gettext-runtime/doc/nls.texi b/gettext-runtime/doc/nls.texi index f61ede2..194dffb 100644 --- a/gettext-runtime/doc/nls.texi +++ b/gettext-runtime/doc/nls.texi @@ -128,7 +128,10 @@ which languages are allowed. @c As a user, if your language has been installed for this package, you only have to set the @code{LANG} environment variable to the appropriate -@samp{@var{ll}_@var{CC}} combination. Here @samp{@var{ll}} is an +@samp{@var{ll}_@var{CC}} combination. If you happen to have the @code{LC_ALL} +or some other @code{LC_xxx} environment variables set, you should unset them +before setting @code{LANG}, otherwise the setting of @code{LANG} will not +have the desired effect. Here @samp{@var{ll}} is an @w{ISO 639} two-letter language code, and @samp{@var{CC}} is an @w{ISO 3166} two-letter country code. For example, let's suppose that you speak German and live in Germany. At the shell prompt, merely execute |