Language And Country-Specific Settings - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

9.4 Language and Country-Specific
The system is, to a very large extent, internationalized and can be flexibly modified for
local needs. In other words, internationalization (I18N) allows specific localizations
(L10N). The abbreviations I18N and L10N are derived from the first and last letters of
the words and, in between, the number of letters omitted.
Settings are made with LC_ variables defined in the file /etc/sysconfig/
language. This refers not only to native language support, but also to the categories
Messages (Language), Character Set, Sort Order, Time and Date, Numbers and Money.
Each of these categories can be defined directly with its own variable or indirectly with
a master variable in the file language (see the locale man page).
RC_LC_MESSAGES, RC_LC_CTYPE, RC_LC_COLLATE, RC_LC_TIME,
RC_LC_NUMERIC, RC_LC_MONETARY
These variables are passed to the shell without the RC_ prefix and represent the
listed categories. The shell profiles concerned are listed below. The current setting
can be shown with the command locale.
RC_LC_ALL
This variable, if set, overwrites the values of the variables already mentioned.
RC_LANG
If none of the previous variables are set, this is the fallback. By default, only
RC_LANG is set. This makes it easier for users to enter their own values.
ROOT_USES_LANG
A yes or no variable. If set to no, root always works in the POSIX environment.
The variables can be set with the YaST sysconfig editor (see
the System Configuration Using the YaST sysconfig Editor"
such a variable contains the language code, country code, encoding and modifier. The
individual components are connected by special characters:
LANG=<language>[[_<COUNTRY>].<Encoding>[@<Modifier>]]
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Section 7.3.1, "Changing
(page 74)). The value of