Re: [Evolution] Help files

[Bart Hollis <bart hardinmt us>]

On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 14:28 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:

> It uses yelp - the Gnome help system.  What happens if you run
>
>    yelp help:evolution
>
> from a command line?

yelp was not installed.  When I installed 12.3, I chose the KDE desktop.
Evolution had to be installed after the fact.  The dependencies list did
not include yelp.  I have filed a bug report 818977

Thanks

> > I'm curious about the naming of that folder, how on earth did it end up
> > as 'C'?
>
> It's historic.  From the net somewhere...
>
>         In the C programming language, the locale name C “specifies the
>         minimal environment for C translation” (C99 §7.11.1.1; the
>         principle has been the same since at least the 1980s). As most
>         operating systems are written in C, especially the unix-inspired
>         ones where locales are set through the LANG and LC_xxx
>         environment variables, C ends up being the name of a “safe”
>         locale everywhere.
>         
>         POSIX specifies that both C and POSIX must be valid locale
>         names, with the same neutral settings.
>         
> So 'C' is from the 'C' language.  The C locale basically comes down to
> 7-bit ASCII.
>
> P.
THANK YOU!  It now makes sense.  Well, it did before, I just didn't know
it.

Bart