[indiana-discuss] locale questions

[Dennis Clarke]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Petr Hruska <Petr.Hruska at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
>
> yes all non utf-8 locales are placed in SUNWlang-*-extra packages. The
> reason is that in OpenSolaris UTF-8 locales are preferred and due to limited
> space on LiveCD other locales were added only to repository. UTF-8 locale
> are included in SUNWlang-*.

uh huh .. sounds cool with me.

> As to get en_CA.ISO8859-1 support adding SUNWlang-en-extra is all you need.
> Right now there is a bit problem if you would like to login to desktop using
> this locale. I have submitted issue for it
> (http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2414).

Thank you

> -----
> Exporting locale in terminal environment works well. As to login to desktop
>
> session for other then UTF-8 locale (e.g. en_CA.ISO8859-1), there is
> workaround:
>
> 1. change default locale setting in /etc/default/init
> 2. reboot the system
> 3. login in gdm using System Default option
> ----
>
> I have tried and works for me ...

All this effort so that the LC_MESSAGES variable lets the system know
that we Canadians only understand things if they end with "eh?" or
refer to hockey in some way :

$ uname -a
SunOS aequitas 5.11 snv_91 i86pc i386 i86pc
$ ls -lap
total 9233
drwxr-xr-x   2 dclarke  csw            3 Jul 10 13:56 ./
drwxr-xr-x   7 dclarke  csw            7 Jul 10 13:51 ../
-rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  csw      4702151 Jul 10 13:56 config.log
$ ls -lap see_dat_dere
see_dat_dere: eh? icing past the blue line ?
$

Dennis