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setlocale.3, locale.7: Clean up the description of LANGUAGE environment variable 

Clean up the $LANGUAGE description, by removing bogus comments
from setlocale(3) and expanding the mention in locale(7).

Maybe you will decide that a more detailed description should be left
to the gettext(3) documentation, but I actually care about the invisible
part of the patch more since the comments have put me off the track
initially ($LANGUAGE has nothing to do with setlocale(3) and is
completely isolated to gettext, as obvious from the glibc sources).

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2008-12-05 18:38:30 -05:00
parent f439817725
commit 97aec57c6f
2 changed files with 7 additions and 12 deletions
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man3/setlocale.3
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@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" Modified Tue Aug 24 17:11:01 1999 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) .\" Modified Tue Aug 24 17:11:01 1999 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
.\" Modified Tue Feb 6 03:31:55 2001 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) .\" Modified Tue Feb 6 03:31:55 2001 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
.\" .\"
.TH SETLOCALE 3 1999-07-04 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .TH SETLOCALE 3 2008-12-05 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME .SH NAME
setlocale \- set the current locale setlocale \- set the current locale
.SH SYNOPSIS .SH SYNOPSIS
@ -88,13 +88,7 @@ is
each part of the locale that should be modified is set according to the each part of the locale that should be modified is set according to the
environment variables. environment variables.
The details are implementation-dependent. The details are implementation-dependent.
For glibc, first For glibc, first (regardless of
.\" [This is false on my system - must check which library versions do this]
.\" if
.\" .I category
.\" is LC_MESSAGES, the environment variable LANGUAGE is inspected,
.\" then
(regardless of
.IR category ), .IR category ),
the environment variable the environment variable
.B LC_ALL .B LC_ALL
@ -113,8 +107,6 @@ If its value is not a valid locale specification, the locale
is unchanged, and is unchanged, and
.BR setlocale () .BR setlocale ()
returns NULL. returns NULL.
.\" The environment variable LANGUAGE may contain several, colon-separated,
.\" locale names.
.PP .PP
The locale The locale
.B """C""" .B """C"""

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man7/locale.7
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@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\" <jochen.hein@delphi.central.de> .\" <jochen.hein@delphi.central.de>
.\" Modified Thu Apr 25 00:43:19 2002 by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> .\" Modified Thu Apr 25 00:43:19 2002 by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
.\" .\"
.TH LOCALE 7 1993-04-24 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .TH LOCALE 7 2008-12-05 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME .SH NAME
locale \- Description of multi-language support locale \- Description of multi-language support
.SH SYNOPSIS .SH SYNOPSIS
@ -98,7 +98,10 @@ and
functions to ease the use of these information. functions to ease the use of these information.
The GNU gettext family of The GNU gettext family of
functions also obey the environment variable functions also obey the environment variable
.BR LANGUAGE . .BR LANGUAGE
(containing a colon-separated list of locales)
if the category is set to a valid locale other than
.BR """C""" .
.TP .TP
.B LC_NUMERIC .B LC_NUMERIC
changes the information used by the changes the information used by the