[Bug 872343] Re: setlocale should say that LANGUAGE is used before LANG

[Michael Kerrisk]

Regarding the initial report:

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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).
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This appears incorrect to me. setlocale(3) is, as far as I know,
ignorant of LANGUAGE. Only gettext(3) knows about LANGUAGE.

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Title:
  setlocale should say that LANGUAGE is used before LANG

Status in eglibc package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in manpages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

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.

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