Hi Stéphane. See my reply into the bug. The reporter is confused. AFAIK, setlocale() ignores LANGUAGE.
Cheers, Michael On 17 February 2016 at 00:51, Stéphane Aulery <lk...@free.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > It would be nice to have the manpage of setlocale updated to declare that the > env variable "LANGUAGE" will be read to get the language. > It should also state that the variable LANGUAGE will be the first one (before > LC_ALL or LANG). > > Thanks. > For the record, the bug #700213 describes a problem about that. > > [This comment is merged from Bug #872343, which is more or less a > duplicate.] > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to > manpages in Ubuntu. > Matching subscriptions: mk-manpages > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311558 > > Title: > $LANG and $LANGUAGE not documented in locale manual page > > Status in eglibc package in Ubuntu: > Triaged > Status in manpages package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: belocs-locales-bin > > 'locale' prints not only the values of LC_*, but also LANG and > LANGUAGE. These variables should be appropriately documented in the > manpage. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/311558/+subscriptions -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311558 Title: $LANG and $LANGUAGE not documented in locale manual page To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/311558/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
