Changes in BOOK/bootscripts/common/locale.xml [2164942:9c06d27e]

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• BOOK/bootscripts/common/locale.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

BOOK/bootscripts/common/locale.xml

@@ -11 +11 @@
 
   <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-locale">
-    <primary sortas="e-/etc/locale.conf">/etc/locale.conf</primary>
+    <primary sortas="e-/etc/profile">/etc/profile</primary>
   </indexterm>
 
-  <para>The file <filename>/etc/locale.conf</filename> file configures
-  system-wide locale settings. The basic file format of locale.conf is a
-  newline-separated list of variable assignments. It is possible to source this
-  configuration file from shell scripts, but it should never contain any shell
-  script features beyond variable assignments. The
-  <filename>locale.conf</filename> man page contains information about the
-  function of this file. Setting up this file properly results in:</para>
+  <para>The base <filename>/etc/profile</filename> below sets some
+  environment variables necessary for native language support. Setting
+  them properly results in:</para>
 
   <itemizedlist>
@@ -43 +39 @@
   </itemizedlist>
 
+  <para>This script also sets the <envar>INPUTRC</envar> environment variable
+  that makes Bash and Readline use the <filename>/etc/inputrc</filename> file
+  created earlier.</para>
+
   <para>Replace <replaceable>[ll]</replaceable> below with the
   two-letter code for the desired language (e.g., <quote>en</quote>) and
   <replaceable>[CC]</replaceable> with the two-letter code for the
-  appropriate country (e.g., <quote>GB</quote> or <quote>US</quote>).
+  appropriate country (e.g., <quote>GB</quote>).
   <replaceable>[charmap]</replaceable> should be replaced with the
   canonical charmap for your chosen locale.</para>
@@ -72 +72 @@
   <para>This results in a final locale setting of <quote>en_US.UTF-8</quote>.
   It is important that the locale found using the heuristic above is tested prior
-  to it being added to <filename>/etc/locale.conf</filename>:</para>
+  to it being added to the Bash startup files:</para>
 
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>LC_ALL=[locale name] locale country
@@ -113 +113 @@
 
   <para>Once the proper locale settings have been determined, create the
-  <filename>/etc/locale.conf</filename> file:</para>
+  <filename>/etc/profile</filename> file:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/locale.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
-<literal># Begin /etc/locale.conf
+<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/profile &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal># Begin /etc/profile
 
-LANG=<replaceable>[ll]</replaceable>_<replaceable>[CC]</replaceable>.<replaceable>[charmap]</replaceable>
+export LANG=<replaceable>[ll]</replaceable>_<replaceable>[CC]</replaceable>.<replaceable>[charmap]</replaceable>
+export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
 
-# End /etc/locale.conf</literal>
+# End /etc/profile</literal>
 EOF</userinput></screen>