Changeset 0ca9f97 for postlfs

Timestamp:

06/29/2004 05:05:35 AM (20 years ago)

Author:

Randy McMurchy <randy@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

de471fc

Parents:

4f6275fd

Message:

Added i18n section to Bash Shell Startup Files

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@2396 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• postlfs/config/profile.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

postlfs/config/profile.xml

@@ -277 +277 @@
 fi
 <command>EOF</command></userinput></screen>
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3>
+<title><filename>/etc/profile.d/i18n.sh</filename></title>
+
+<para>This script shows how to set some environment variables necessary for 
+<application>Bash</application> to accept keystrokes properly, even in 
+non-English locales. Replace <replaceable>[ll]</replaceable> with the 
+two-letter code for your language (e.g., <quote>en</quote>) and 
+<replaceable>[cc]</replaceable> with the two-letter code for your country 
+(e.g., <quote>GB</quote>). Also you may need to specify (and this is actually 
+the preferred form) your character encoding (e.g., <quote>iso8859-1</quote>) 
+after a dot (so that the result is <quote>en_GB.iso8859-1</quote>). Issue the 
+following command for more information:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput><command>man 3 setlocale</command></userinput></screen>
+
+<para>The list of all locales supported by <application>Glibc</application> 
+can be obtained by running the following command:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput><command>locale -a</command></userinput></screen> 
+
+<para>Now, when you are sure about your locale settings, create the 
+<filename>/etc/profile.d/i18n.sh</filename> file:</para> 
+ 
+<screen><userinput><command>cat &gt; /etc/profile.d/i18n.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"</command>
+# Set up i18n variables
+export LC_ALL=<replaceable>[ll]</replaceable>_<replaceable>[cc]</replaceable>
+export LANG=<replaceable>[ll]</replaceable>_<replaceable>[cc]</replaceable>
+<command>EOF</command></userinput></screen>
 
 <para>Other initialization can easily be added to the <filename>profile</filename>
@@ -282 +312 @@
 <filename class='directory'>/etc/profile.d</filename> directory.</para>
 </sect3>
+
 </sect2>