On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:12:25AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > I am not sure if this is what you meant, but my understanding is that > there is far greater support for the _GB locale, rather then the _AU > locale: > > [515] [scrooge:bam] ~ >du /usr/share/locale/en_GB > 136 /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES > 140 /usr/share/locale/en_GB > [516] [scrooge:bam] ~ >du /usr/share/locale/en_AU > 8 /usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES > 12 /usr/share/locale/en_AU >
I didn't realise that! Actually, I hadn't really thought about it. I'm not really bothered about the messages themselves (I figure if the author's American then he has the right to write his messages in American). I just set the locale to en_AU on principle ;) > ideally, if the message is not found in _AU, it should fall back onto > _GB, but I am not sure this is possible. > I think I read somewhere in the middle of this discussion that you can use ":" to make something like LANG=en_AU:en_GB which is supposed to define fallbacks. > Experimentation shows that using en_AU often uses the US spelling of > words, where en_GB doesn't. > Curious. I haven't noticed yet :) If it starts to become a bother I'll put en_GB in. > How do you get gdm to log you in using a nonstandard locale? That I do not know. I'm currently running from startx :) Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
