Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)

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From: Tapani Tarvainen
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 16:08

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In article <8498@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:

> I would like to be able to set an environment
>variable in my profile that my preferred language is Dutch.

This is the approach taken by HP (I don't know if it was their idea or
from POSIX or whatever): simply set the environment variable LANG as
"dutch", "finnish" &c, and lo!, sort, globbing, &c begin to work as
they should in the specified language.

(There are some bugs yet, and in fact I have to set LANG as
"finnish.iso88591" as there's also the HP Roman-8 character set, but
the idea is right, IMHO.)
--
Tapani Tarvainen  (tt@math.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)

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Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
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