Re: Preferences window

[Darko Obradovic <dobradovic gmx de>]

Am 08.07.2004 18:03 schrieb(en) Albrecht Dreß:
> Not necessarily. I've been working at an astronomical institute (and  
> still have friends there), where all machines are (close to heaven!)  
> Sun's, with a US keyboard, and US locale. So the locale-based guess  
> would be US-ASCII. In that environment, you can't even set a system- 
> wide default, as people come from ~50 nations, including e.g. Russia,  
> China and Romania, and of course they all have a different preferred  
> replacement charset. I mention this here as I could convince some  
> people to switch to balse, inter alia as ancient pine could not  
> handle such messages. So, in short, I do not think the locale-based  
> setting is a solution.

I don't want an endless argument, but don't people define their LANG in  
their own ".cshrc|.bashrc|.profile|whatever" in such cases?