Re: language/locale selector [was: Re: Settings downstream would reasonably want to add]

From: Martin Pitt <martin pitt ubuntu com>
To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: language/locale selector [was: Re: Settings downstream would reasonably want to add]
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 19:25:47 +0200

Hey Lennart,

Lennart Poettering [2011-05-15 18:26 +0200]:
> Just out of curiosity, what's the mechanism Ubuntu uses to forward
> user locale settings to the system? i.e. what's the path to make locale
> configuration system-wide with Ubuntu?

Debian/Ubuntu store the system-wide default in /etc/default/locale. It
is a plain "source with /bin/sh" style file like

---------------------- 8< -----------------
$ cat /etc/default/locale 
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8
---------------------- 8< -----------------

Martin
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Follow-Ups:
- Re: language/locale selector [was: Re: Settings downstream would reasonably want to add]
  - From: Lennart Poettering

References:
- Re: no external panels for gnome-control-center [was GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup]
  - From: Sergey Udaltsov
- Re: no external panels for gnome-control-center [was GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup]
  - From: Martin Pitt
- Settings downstream would reasonably want to add [was: long thread with no resolution]
  - From: Dave Neary
- Re: Settings downstream would reasonably want to add [was: long thread with no resolution]
  - From: Martin Pitt
- Re: Settings downstream would reasonably want to add [was: long thread with no resolution]
  - From: Matthias Clasen
- language/locale selector [was: Re: Settings downstream would reasonably want to add]
  - From: Martin Pitt
- Re: language/locale selector [was: Re: Settings downstream would reasonably want to add]
  - From: Lennart Poettering

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