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What to put into LANG (was: Re: Why TELNET sends arbitrary environment variables at all?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wilhelm Mueller)
Wed Nov 8 10:30:59 1995

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 08 Nov 1995 12:02:02 +0100
From: muewi@informatik.uni-bremen.de (Wilhelm Mueller)

In article <47ohpv$9bu@zuul.nmti.com> peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

   > 	LANG

	   These are pretty much static.

   > there are probably many more that are pretty portable.

But someone forgot to define what goes into LANG (besides "C"), so for
German AIX     uses de_DE or De_DE
       Solaris uses de
       HP/UX   uses german
       Oracle  prefers to use its own stuff to be sure to know what's meant
       nobody seems to use deutsch

So I ended up unsetting LANG (and LC*) in my .profile just to be sure
I don't get strange results.

- Wilhelm
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