Comment 2 for bug 868149
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| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote Re: [Bug 868149] Re: Need to set $LANG from .dmrc for backwards compatibility | #2 |
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson [2011-10-05 14:47 -0000]:
> We currently derive locales from language denotations, such as 'es_ES'
> or 'de', all the time.
But we should really avoid doing that, as it can never be correct for
$LANG. It's fine for LC_MESSAGES and LC_CTYPE.
> The main problem is that LANG represents regional formats in
> Oneiric, not language.
$LANG has always been defined to specify a locale, not a language.
This is neither Oneiric nor Ubuntu specific, but standard
gettext/POSIX behaviour.
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