On 5/11/2011 6:51 PM, Dale wrote:
Does this look more better?
root@fireball / # locale
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF8"
LC_PAPER, is that like paper in my printer? What the heck
does it want my phone number, address and other stuff for?
Some of that I get but some is just plain nosy. O_O
These are all proposed, but ultimately rejected, POSIX
extensions to hold other standard, region-specific settings.
glibc grabbed onto them when the latest POSIX was still in
draft status and implemented them.
LC_PAPER is one of a few places that holds the default paper
sizes (I think Debian has an /etc/papersize or some such).
It's kinda silly, since "en_US" isn't a paper size, but
roughly speaking, en_US = "8.5x11 letter" and everything
else = "A4".
The others are for tracking: proper name format (e.g. family
name first or last); postal address format; telephone number
format (local, international, etc); units of measurement
(imperial vs. metric); and the standards that govern the
rest of the formats. Support for them is pretty sketchy and
you can probably safely ignore them :)
--Mike
