On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Stefan Esser wrote: > On 2007-06-03 07:38 -0700, Neil Short <neshort_at_yahoo.com> wrote: >> How do you export those variables successfully in >> ~/.xsession? It still doesn't help with me. >> >> check this out: >> >> $ locale >> LANG=en_US > > This is not a valid locale! You have a choice between: > > en_US.ISO8859-1 > en_US.ISO8859-15 > en_US.US-ASCII > en_US.UTF-8 > > [...] >> $ echo $LC_ALL >> en_US >> $ perl >> perl: warning: Setting locale failed. >> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: >> LC_ALL = (unset), >> LANG = "en_US" >> are supported and installed on your system. >> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). > > Yes, and perl tells you, that en_US just isn't specific enough > for its needs ... > > It's up to you whether you prefer en_US.US-ASCII, en_US.ISO8859-1, > or en_US.UTF-8 (e.g. depending on whether you at least occasionally > work with foreign language texts). > > Regards, STefan Stefan's absolutely right. What I would do is use en_US.UTF-8, because it's unicode, but depending on your platform and how much memory you have, representing characters in 2 bytes (unicode) vs 1 byte (ASCII/ISO charsets), might not be such a hip idea (thinking embedded, low memory machines)... -GarrettReceived on Sun Jun 03 2007 - 14:37:49 UTC
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