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My department is currently translating X.desktop, our multi-platform
UNIX based, Motif compliant GUI Desktop Manager into French and
German. At the same time we are discovering ever more useful
facts about the way various UNIX systems are set up in Europe.

For example, researching all the different implementations of
locale setting on the different platforms and the results they
give has been immensely timeconsuming.

One of the interesting facts which has arisen from this research
is the discovery that a considerable number of European sites
ignore the locale options and  do not use the LANG variable, simply
running with the default - normally US locale.

This has implications for our product as we intended to use
the LANG variable to determine what language to run our product
in. It now looks like we may need to rely on a specific variable of
our own for this purpose.

To confirm this supposition I would like to hear from UNIX users
on European sites about the locale and LANG variable settings
they use. - Type env to display the variables you have set.
LANG and LC_ALL are of interest to me. (LC_ALL controls such
things as sort orders, dates, character sets and currency symbols.
I would like to know whether or not they are set, if so what to,
where you are and what hardware platform you use. If they are not
set i.e. they do not appear in the list on typing env, then I
assume you are using the default US settings but I would still
like to hear from you.

FINALLY, in order to help us translate our colour selection table,
can anyone tell me whether the file /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt is
commonly translated on French or German systems and if so
what its translated contents are.

Any information gratefully received


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