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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting bash and languages Post 302202907 by era on Friday 6th of June 2008 03:23:59 AM

06-06-2008

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That's the idea, yes. Many of the standard Unix tools only have machine-readable output in the first place, so the effects should be minor. Mainly, anything to do with sort order, currency formatting, human-readable number formatting, date and time formats, measurements etc. is sensitive to locale settings, but many scripts don't touch these things much.

Globally clobbering the user's locale is not such a great idea, actually, so it might be better if you use LC_ALL=C only for those commands which actually require it (so grep "$regex" "$file" | LC_ALL=C sort | uniq >file for example). That way, they still see output in their own language if there is an error message from grep, for instance (provided of course that their copy of grep actually has a localized message catalog).

Google a bit for i18n if you need more information about internationalization and localization.

Last edited by era; 06-06-2008 at 04:34 AM.. Reason: Maybe don't clobber LC_ALL globally after all

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doctools::msgcat::toc::c(n)					Documentation tools				       doctools::msgcat::toc::c(n)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       doctools::msgcat::toc::c - Message catalog for the doctoc parser (C)

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  8.4

       package require msgcat

       package require doctools::msgcat::toc::c  ?0.1?

_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       The  package  doctools::msgcat::toc::c  is  a support module providing the C language message catalog for the doctoc parser in the doctools
       system version 2. As such it is an internal package a regular user (developer) should not be in direct contact with.

       If you are such please go the documentation of either

       [1]    doctools::doc,

       [2]    doctools::toc, or

       [3]    doctools::idx

       Within the system architecture this package resides under the package doctools::msgcat providing the  general  message  catalog	management
       within  the  system.  Note  that there is no explicit dependency between the manager and catalog packages. The catalog is a plugin which is
       selected and loaded dynamically.

API

       This package has no exported API.

BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
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       either package and/or documentation.

KEYWORDS

       C, catalog package, doctoc, doctools, i18n, internationalization, l10n, localization, message catalog, message package

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