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akanski

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Registered: 2011-09-30

Posts: 32

Re: makepkg localization quirks

@karol,

A word of advice, do not use "en_US" for LC_TIME even if you prefer American English as LANG default, you'll save yourself a lot of headaches with programs that depend on LC_TIME, and if so, some of their files with dates in your country format.

Nevertheless, if you don't wish a weird and quirky jumble of different languages in your system, I recommend you at least to set LC_TIME in English speaking country with time and date format closer to yours. After all, why do you make life difficult for yourself by no choosing any other whether the names of months and week days are exactly the same than in the States?

The internationalization language locales are in the directory '/usr/share/i18n/locales', so you can have a look at their contents to know what's best for you.

By the way, you can do something like this to find out their ascii values (x instead of U):

ascii x0025 x0054

Furthermore, this could be useful to you:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lo … ide_locale

Last edited by akanski (2013-07-07 20:17:48)