This patch (against the latest git) attempts to 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@xxxxxxx> diff --git a/man3/setlocale.3 b/man3/setlocale.3 index a5d9896..21eebfb 100644 --- a/man3/setlocale.3 +++ b/man3/setlocale.3 @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ .\" Modified Sun Jul 4 14:52:16 1999 by Bruno Haible (haible@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) .\" Modified Tue Aug 24 17:11:01 1999 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@xxxxxx) .\" Modified Tue Feb 6 03:31:55 2001 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@xxxxxx) +.\" Modified Thu Dec 4 02:34:27 2008 by Petr Baudis (pasky@xxxxxxx) .\" .TH SETLOCALE 3 1999-07-04 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME @@ -88,13 +89,7 @@ is each part of the locale that should be modified is set according to the environment variables. The details are implementation-dependent. -For glibc, first -.\" [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 +For glibc, first (regardless of .IR category ), the environment variable .B LC_ALL @@ -113,8 +108,6 @@ If its value is not a valid locale specification, the locale is unchanged, and .BR setlocale () returns NULL. -.\" The environment variable LANGUAGE may contain several, colon-separated, -.\" locale names. .PP The locale .B """C""" diff --git a/man7/locale.7 b/man7/locale.7 index 3da0ed7..8236e0f 100644 --- a/man7/locale.7 +++ b/man7/locale.7 @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ .\" Modified Sun Jun 01 17:16:34 1997 by Jochen Hein .\" <jochen.hein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> .\" Modified Thu Apr 25 00:43:19 2002 by Bruno Haible <bruno@xxxxxxxxx> +.\" Modified Thu Dec 4 02:34:27 2008 by Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> .\" .TH LOCALE 7 1993-04-24 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME @@ -98,7 +99,10 @@ and functions to ease the use of these information. The GNU gettext family of 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 .B LC_NUMERIC changes the information used by the -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
