Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com> writes: > > Benjamin Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen > > <roz...@geekspace.com> wrote: > > > > > Boston Linux Installfest XL > > > > > > > > What makes this installfest bigger than the other ones? Are more > > > > attendees expected? > > > > > > I think he's running with LC_NUMERIC=la_RM, in which case > > > `XL' is his localised representation of 40. > > > > I was joking, in case that wasn't obvious. :) > > > > Is LC_NUMERIC=la_RM a real thing for some stuff, or are you also > > joking? > > Yes, that was a HHOS joke :) > > "la" is an actual ISO-639-1 language-code, and it does actualy refer > to ancient Latin, but there doesn't appear to be any code for Rome > in ISO 639; so I used "RM", because that's the closest thing I could find.
Uh, of course I meant "doesn't appear to be any code for Rome in ISO 3166". > Yes, I did spend a fair amount of time on the research for that joke... :) > > > I tried it on my box Deb 5.0 box and was disappointed "ls -l" > > didn't output Roman numerals for the sizes. :) > > Did you add (or uncomment) "la_RM" (or "la_RM.UTF-8"?) in /etc/locale.gen > and then run the "locale-gen" command? > > You know, a given locale isn't actually supported on Debian until you've > done that (or had "dpkg-reconfigure locales" do it for you) :) -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
