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Originally Posted by era

What do you mean by "write a script in English"?

The command names like cat df awk etc are never localized, even though some of them coincide with English words (date, join, sort ...)

Output from some commands will be localized, so if you are e.g. parsing the output from ls it might be different from what you expect if the user is in another locale. See man locale for an overview. If this is an issue for your script, export LC_ALL=C should force all commands to use a "traditional" C locale (meaning in practice English minus minus).

If your script prints some messages in English, then of course, unless you take special precautions, your strings will be simply strings and won't change even if you would like them to. If you want to make your script localizable, look at gettext and other internationalization frameworks.

Hi Era
thankyou for repying, yes what i meant was, i have a bash script written in english
and if someone, eg german etc, wanted to use the script, would it it still work on their machine, ignoring the fact that they couldnt read it.
So if i understand you right adding export LC_ALL=C to a script will allow it to work regardless of locale/language set on the users machine,

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maria-vis

MARIA-VIS(1)						      General Commands Manual						      MARIA-VIS(1)

NAME

       maria-vis - graph visualization script for maria

SYNOPSIS

       maria-vis

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the maria-vis command.

       maria-vis  is  a  lefty script invoked by maria in order to visually present information to the user.  The script reads commands and direc-
       tives from standard input and may write maria query language commands to standard output.  An end-of-file condition on standard input  ter-
       minates the script.
       The  script is built on top of the dotty script that is part of the GraphViz package.  The commands prefixed with visual in maria issue two
       kinds of commands to this script: new(); or add(); followed by a newline character and a graph definition in the dot input  language.   The
       new  function  in the script displays the graph in a new window, while the add function copies information from the graph to the last modi-
       fied graph.

SEE ALSO

       dot(1), dotty(1), lefty(1), maria(1).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Marko Makela <msmakela@tcs.hut.fi>.  The maria-vis script and the visualization option  were  designed  and
       implemented by Marko Makela.  Please see the copyright file in /usr/share/doc/maria for details.

								  August 10, 2001						      MARIA-VIS(1)