Lenny. Locales and Interface Language
Hello, list! Would you, please, help me to explain how locales work in Lenny? I have checked docs but something remains unclear. If you have time, please, answer a few questions below: 1. Is a default system locale independent from an interface language? I mean, is it possible to change a default system locale to whatever I like and there will be no harm to English interface I have? 2. Is it will be enough to switch a default system locale via # dpkg-reconfigure locales ? In this case, locales I have chosen before, will be regenerated and there will be no harm to current set of locales and I will have a chance to change default system locale, right? 3. Is that correct method to change default system locale or I should use another one, like to edit some configuration files manually? 4. Do I need to reboot the system after that 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'? Thanks for your time and effort! -- Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny. Locales and Interface Language
Mark Goldshtein wrote: 1. Is a default system locale independent from an interface language? I mean, is it possible to change a default system locale to whatever I like and there will be no harm to English interface I have? [..] It depends on what you mean by changing the locale. AFAIK the locale *mainly* determines the user interface. Messages and prompts from programs, date and currency formats, paper size (eg Letter for US locales), number format (e.g. thousands separator is comma in some locales, period in others), etc. Note that messages and prompts from programs for various locales have to be provided by the programs themselves. If they are not, messages, etc., will be provided in some default language (invariably English). Also, it is up to the programs to pay attention to the locale; if they do not, they will generate e.g. numbers and dates according to the US convention. So if you want to keep an English user interface, you have to keep an English locale; but if you also want to read, input, and print things in other languages than English, you should make sure that your locale is a UTF-8 one, so you can handle all kinds of languages and scripts. Examples: en_US.utf8, en_GB.utf8. Regards, Jan http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny. Locales and Interface Language
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Jan Willem Stumpel jstum...@planet.nl wrote: Thanks for your time and such in-deep explanation! -- Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
