Gilbert Ferrara wrote:
> I want to set GRASS LANGUAGE in a LINUX installation. In Windows is quite
> easy, just add the following in .../etc/init.bat:
>
> set LANGUAGE=es_ES
>
> set LANG=es_ES
>
> set LC_ALL=es_ES
>
> And in LINUX, how is it done? Just add the same text in .../etc/init.sh and
> it's finished or do I have to do something to this file?
These would normally be set in e.g. ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile
etc; there are quite a lot of files which may be read by the shell)
then inherited by all processes.
Setting environment variables in Unix is done with e.g.:
LANG=es_ES
export LANG
I'd advise against using LC_ALL, as it overrides LC_NUMERIC. This can
cause numbers to use a comma as the decimal separator, which is
problematic when writing files (most file formats require a period).
GRASS modules only use the LC_MESSAGES category directly, but some
programs and (especially) scripts invoke external programs which may
be affected by the LC_NUMERIC or LC_ALL settings (scripts which use
awk are prone to this, although I think that we have now found them
all and forced LC_NUMERIC=C).
--
Glynn Clements <gl...@gclements.plus.com>
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