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Re: latin-1 language environment and bash.exe under w2k
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: latin-1 language environment and bash.exe under w2k |
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Date: |
10 Nov 2001 22:04:03 +0100 |
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Jason Rumney <jasonr@altavista.net> writes:
|> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
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|> > > maierh@HESTIA [bin] $echo $LANG
|> > > DEU
|> >
|> > What does "DEU" as the value of LANG mean? I understand that "DE"
|> > means `Deutsch', but what does the "U" part mean?
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|> More MS non-adherence to standards I would think; see earlier threads
|> about Chinese Windows using chs instead of zh.gb2312 for its language
|> identifier.
There is no standard for locale names (except for the POSIX and C
locales). I could create any locale I like and use that for $LANG. That
could be an alias to an existing locale, or a completely different one.
Andreas.
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