setlocale should say that LANGUAGE is used before LANG
Bug #872343 reported by
Sylvestre Ledru
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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eglibc (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
manpages (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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.
affects: | gettext (Ubuntu) → manpages (Ubuntu) |
Changed in manpages (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
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documentation of the meaning and hierarchy of LANG, LANGUAGE and LC_ is scattered across a number of places which I agree is unfortunate. See bug 311558 for another example. I'd think that having it documented in only one place and have other manpages refer to that places would be the way to go.