[Bug 311558] Re: $LANG and $LANGUAGE not documented in locale manual page

[Michael Kerrisk]

Hi Stéphane.

See my reply into the bug. The reporter is confused. AFAIK,
setlocale() ignores LANGUAGE.

Cheers,

Michael


On 17 February 2016 at 00:51, Stéphane Aulery <lkppo at free.fr> wrote:
> 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.
>
> [This comment is merged from Bug #872343, which is more or less a
> duplicate.]
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> Title:
>   $LANG and $LANGUAGE not documented in locale manual page
>
> Status in eglibc package in Ubuntu:
>   Triaged
> Status in manpages package in Ubuntu:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   Binary package hint: belocs-locales-bin
>
>   'locale' prints not only the values of LC_*, but also LANG and
>   LANGUAGE. These variables should be appropriately documented in the
>   manpage.
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Title:
  $LANG and $LANGUAGE not documented in locale manual page

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

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: belocs-locales-bin

  'locale' prints not only the values of LC_*, but also LANG and
  LANGUAGE. These variables should be appropriately documented in the
  manpage.

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