Re: How to make locale settings more robust

[Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas]

Hi,

Anadon <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com> writes:

> I am trying to get the locale strings "uk", "uk_UA", and "uk_UA.utf8"
> to all work similarly.  Currently, only the latter works.

These identifiers do not mean the same thing for all the variables you
are trying to set.  LC_XXX variables[1] usually check directly on the
locale directory.  LANGUAGE[2], on the other hand, should work with the
first two.

Usually this is enough:

  unset LC_ALL
  LANGUAGE="<locale>" <program> <args>...

Such as:

  LANGUAGE="uk" foo --bar=baz

Using LANG allows overriding some of them:

  unset LC_ALL
  LANG="<full-locale-id>" LC_TIME="<other-locale>" <program> <args>...

LOCALEDIR is a compile time value for most programs[3] and cannot be
overriden after the binary has been built.  It might depend on the
specific binary/distribution though.

Best regards,
Miguel

[1] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Locale-Environment-Variables.html
[2] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/The-LANGUAGE-variable.html
[3] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.63/html_node/Installation-Directory-Variables.html#index-localedir-145