Re: help request -- help finish UseEnvLocale.

Justin Bradford (justin@ukans.edu)
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:02:41 -0500 (CDT)


> could someone in europe (and who routinely uses the LANG and
> LC_ vars) give it a try ?? [if you've hand-edited you AbiWord.Profile,
> it would probably be best to delete it and let AbiWord create a fresh
> one for you.]

The LC_* stuff includes things like COLLATE, CTYPE, NUMERIC, etc.
I just take what's in CTYPE, as it seemed to be most relevant to what
language should be used. The LANG env variable is the default for all the
specific LC_* ones.
This means it might make sense to use NUMERIC when deciding what
language/formatting to use for other areas (although no good examples come
to mind).
Furthermore, I leave the locale setting as it was when that function is
called. It might be useful to set the locale to the user's prefs.

> that's fine. we can get it later.
> BTW, do the POSIX values give any indication
> of which unit of measure is preferred ??

No, but I didn't dig much.

Justin



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