Re: [Hampshire] LOCALE: ja_JP.UTF-8

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Author: Benjamin M. A'Lee
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] LOCALE: ja_JP.UTF-8
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 05:09:16PM +0000, Lisi wrote:
> If I set a system's locale to the above, will it not turn the whole system
> Japanese?
>
> At the moment I have LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, and my system is English. I had always
> imagined that the two facts were connected.


It should, if the ja_JP.UTF-8 locale is installed (though if a
particular app doesn't have a translation to that locale, it will
probably fall back to "C", which is basically US English).

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