Re: locales (was: minutes of ESC call ...)

2012-06-29 Thread Miklos Vajna
Hi Eike, On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:25:51PM +0200, Eike Rathke wrote: > > But that is just plain wrong IMHO, LC_MESSAGES=C can be used to get > > "everything in English" without screwing up LANG. > > How many users know about a C locale? And how many know that there's > LC_MESSAGES that can be s

locales (was: minutes of ESC call ...)

2012-06-29 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Miklos, On Friday, 2012-06-29 15:04:10 +0200, Miklos Vajna wrote: > > I mean that a huge amount of people use the en_US locale as their > > default "I want everything in English even though I'm not in the US" > > locale[1] > > But that is just plain wrong IMHO, LC_MESSAGES=C can be used to ge