Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> writes: > On Wednesday 11 May 2011 22:14:55 Mike Edenfield wrote: > >> The only problem with LC_ALL is that it overrides all of the other LC_* >> variables. > > - which is precisely what most ordinary desktop users want.
Most perhaps, but certainly not all. For me it's important that swedish charaters is usable, that åäö is sorted correctly, and that uppercase å is Å, so that case-insensitiv searches works. But it's equally important for me to have messages in english, so I have LANG=sv_SE.utf8, but LC_MESSAGES=C -- Christer
