[H-GEN] Locale Setting and SVN In Debian

Greg Black gjb at gbch.net
Thu Jul 22 19:47:47 EDT 2004


On 2004-07-22, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> Anthony Irwin <irwa82 at froggy.com.au> writes:
> 
> > I added export LANG=C to .bash_profile so the export is always
> > available is this the best method or is there a more standard method.
> 
> My /etc/environment lists LANG=C as its only entry.

I don't use locales, but my recollection from the days when they
were introduced was that the default is "C" which would make the
above redundant in a correctly-setup system, no?

Certainly, all my systems (which have nothing set explicitly) do
provide the "C" locale by default.

Cheers, Greg




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