Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007 Installation Manual page 435

localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
This is the default setting if American English is selected during installation. If you
selected another language, that language is enabled but still with UTF-8 as the
character encoding.
LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1
This sets the language to English, country to United States, and the character set
to ISO-8859-1. This character set does not support the Euro sign, but it can be
useful sometimes for programs that have not been updated to support UTF-8. The
string defining the charset (ISO-8859-1 in this case) is then evaluated by pro-
grams like Emacs.
LANG=en_IE@euro
The above example explicitly includes the Euro sign in a language setting. Strictly
speaking, this setting is obsolete now, because UTF-8 also covers the Euro symbol.
It is only useful if an application does not support UTF-8, but ISO-8859-15.
SuSEconfig reads the variables in /etc/sysconfig/language and writes the
necessary changes to /etc/SuSEconfig/profile and /etc/SuSEconfig/
csh.cshrc. /etc/SuSEconfig/profile is read or sourced by /etc/
profile. /etc/SuSEconfig/csh.cshrc is sourced by /etc/csh.cshrc.
This makes the settings available systemwide.
Users can override the system defaults by editing their ~/.bashrc accordingly. For
instance, if you do not want to use the systemwide en_US for program messages, include
LC_MESSAGES=es_ES so messages are displayed in Spanish instead.
21.4.2 Locale Settings in ~/.i18n
If you are not satisfied with locale system defaults, change the settings in ~/.i18n.
Entries in ~/.i18n override system defaults from /etc/sysconfig/language.
Use the same variable names but without the RC_ namespace prefixes, for example,
use LANG instead of RC_LANG.
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