Am Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:10:14 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I don't know why you set it, but I find LC_COLLATE=C extremely > annoying. > > If you want an English speaking system, but live in Switzerland, I > recommend this: > > LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8 > LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 You should be careful with LC_MESSAGES if you use desktop environments which don't have their own language setting like Xfce. They use LC_MESSAGES to set their language. Means if you're e.g. in Germany, use Xfce and have this locale.conf as it is recommended in man locale.conf: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=C Then you get a fully English system. The same with: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 I would recommend to just set LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8 in locale.conf. If you really need an English output on the console, e.g. for filing bug reports, I would recommend to set LC_MESSAGES explicitly each time you really need it: LC_MESSAGES=C command-to-be-executed Heiko
