On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:07:43AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Hi, > > some days ago I submitted a bug (111465) against the "locales" package > asking for the inclusion of the alias "english" for the locale > "en_US.ISO-8851-1". Ben Collins, the maintainer of "locales", swiftly > closed it with this message: > > Find a consensus on whether english should be en_US or en_UK and > I'll do it. As I fail to think you will find this consensus, I'm > closing this bug. > > My bug was triggered by the fact that gdm offers a long selection of > languages, among them English (without bells and whistles, just plain > old "English") and in case you select that, it sets the environment > variable LANG to that, "english". Since that locale doesn't exist, and > there isn't an alias for that, this causes some programs to emit > spurious warnings about undefined/invalid locales. I don't care. For > me the solution is to set LANG in my .bashrc (or unset it, which is > what I actually do -- I noticed the bug because this was a new > installation where my standard environment wasn't available yet). > Since other users are likely to hit this, too, I submitted at bug. At > first I was going to submit it against gdm, for setting LANG to a "bad" > value, but then I noticed /etc/locale.alias contains things like: >
What if the gdm pkg cut off `plain' english? Maybe a choice among english_british and english_american could me more correct. What about english_italian also :) ? We speak brooklino instead of plain english, generally ... -- Francesco P. Lovergine