On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:43:24PM +0400, Alex Kapranoff wrote:
> Russian charset koi8-r fits nicely into 256 ASCII table. But to answer
>mutt's question about saving a letter in a mbox I have to toggle Caps, press
>Russian 'd' for 'da' which is 'yes' and then switch to Latin again ;-((
>
> In fact I don't know how things are for different national keyboard
>traditions so I enetered the list for a discussion.
I'd suggest instead of setting LANG= or LC_ALL=, just select the
variables you really want (eg LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, maybe LC_MONETARY,
LC_NUMERIC, and LC_TIME). This would also work for other locale-aware
programs that ask yes/no questions.
Best Regards,
Marius Gedminas
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Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for.
