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BOOK/bootscripts/common/profile.xml
r46945af r35cce5c 86 86 the canonical name, run the following command, where <replaceable>[locale 87 87 name]</replaceable> is the output given by <command>locale -a</command> for 88 your preferred locale (<quote>en_ GB.iso88591</quote> in our example).</para>88 your preferred locale (<quote>en_US.utf8</quote> in our example).</para> 89 89 90 90 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>LC_ALL=<replaceable>[locale name]</replaceable> locale charmap</userinput></screen> 91 91 92 <para>For the <quote>en_ GB.iso88591</quote> locale, the above command92 <para>For the <quote>en_US.utf8</quote> locale, the above command 93 93 will print:</para> 94 94 95 <screen><computeroutput> ISO-8859-1</computeroutput></screen>95 <screen><computeroutput>UTF-8</computeroutput></screen> 96 96 97 <para>This results in a final locale setting of <quote>en_ GB.ISO-8859-1</quote>.97 <para>This results in a final locale setting of <quote>en_US.UTF-8</quote>. 98 98 It is important that the locale found using the heuristic above is tested prior 99 99 to it being added to the Bash startup files:</para> … … 149 149 EOF</userinput></screen> 150 150 151 <note>152 <para>The <quote>C</quote> (default) and <quote>en_US</quote>153 (the recommended one for United States English users) locales are154 different.</para>155 </note>156 157 151 <para>Setting the keyboard layout, screen font, and locale-related 158 152 environment variables are the only internationalization steps needed to 159 153 support locales that use ordinary single-byte encodings and left-to-right 160 writing direction. More complex cases (including UTF-8 based locales) 161 require additional steps and additional patches because many applications 162 tend to not work properly under such conditions. These steps and patches 163 are not included in the CLFS book and such locales are not yet supported 164 by CLFS.</para> 154 writing direction. UTF-8 has been testing on the English, French, and 155 German, Spanish locales. All other locales are untested. If you discover 156 issues with any other locale please open a ticket in our trac system.</para> 165 157 166 158 </sect1>
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