[SOLVED] Confusion with locales: keep english command output

lich000king · 06-24-2011, 06:48 AM

In chapter 7.8 of LFS 6.8 I would like to set the Swiss German charmap, so I use
de_CH.ISO-8859-1
(according to the explanations there).
But this also changes the text output of some commands to German (and results in some characters like äöü not being displayed correctly).
How can I have the CH charmap while keeping the text output in English?

druuna · 06-24-2011, 09:59 AM

Hi,

You probably used: export LANG=de_CH.ISO-8859-1 which sets all LC_* types to de_CH.ISO-8859-1 (execute locale in a terminal to see this yourself.

To my knowledge LC_MESSAGES is used for command output. You can set this one separately to some other value (POSIX should be fine).

The /etc/profile entry mentioned in chapter 7.8 would then look like this (order is important):

Code:

export LANG=de_CH.ISO-8859-1
export LC_MESSAGES=POSIX

Hope this helps.

lich000king · 06-28-2011, 01:11 PM

That's it.
Thanks!

druuna · 06-28-2011, 01:42 PM

You're welcome