Unable to set LC_COLLATE system-wide

[John Horne]

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 07:52 -0700, gerrynix wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:41 +0100, John Horne wrote:
> > > > I have noticed that despite setting both LC_COLLATE and LANG in
> > > > the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file, it seems that the LC_COLLATE does
> not
> > > > get set for normal users, but does get set for root.
> > > 
> > > Did you reboot?
> > > 
> > Yup.
> 
> OK, just checking.
> 
> The action appears to be in the file /etc/profile.d/lang.sh, where there
> is a check for $HOME/.i18n. If this exists it's sourced, except that
> $LANG is preserved. Then there's a bunch of other special cases which
> you would need to pore over. Of course if the user doesn't have a
> $HOME/.i18n file it just sets some standard defaults.
> 
> I don't know if any of this explains what you're seeing.
> 
> poc
> 
> Not sure if this will fill your needs, but you will have no further
> probs... Place the assignments in the /etc/profile. Of course, they
> are then set into the environment on a per login basis. If you have
> *csh users, also place the assignments in the /etc/csh.login. 
>
Okay, thanks for the replies.

I'm still a bit confused though. On my F9 system I have
an /etc/sysconfig/i18n file, but no '$HOME/.i18n'. So according to
the /etc/profile.d/i18n file, it should execute:

      for langfile in /etc/sysconfig/i18n $HOME/.i18n ; do
        [ -f $langfile ] && . $langfile && sourced=1
      done

Then a bit further on we have:

  [ -n "$LC_COLLATE" ] && export LC_COLLATE || unset LC_COLLATE

Since I have set LC_COLLATE="C" in /etc/sysconfig/i18n, then LC_COLLATE
should be exported.

Perhaps I need to test a little bit more.


John.

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