NLS support will be disabled by default for now

Philipp Thomas pthomas@suse.de
Mon Nov 27 19:06:00 GMT 2000


* Dennis Bjorklund (db@zigo.dhs.org) [20001127 21:42]:

> Is there a reson for this? It seems useless to have two categories if one
> always have to be the same as some other. It's something that is very
> wrong then.

Nope, there's nothing wrong. LC_MESSAGES and LC_CTYPE control two different,
allthough related locale aspects. LC_MESSAGES controls which message catalog
is used and LC_CTYPE the character set used on a terminal.

LC_MESSAGES without LC_CTYPE is pretty much pointless, but not the other way
round.

Philipp



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