Subject: Re: i18n docs
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/04/2003 21:47:19
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:59:54PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Where are the docs for setting up internationalization?
> 
> I want to have Spanish for my shell error messages and more (like man
> pages if they will exist).
> 
> So I tried setting my LANG, LC_CTYPE, LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES and others, but
> no luck.
> 
> Then I tried a different locale:
> 
>  $ export LANG=sv
>  $ export LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.ISO8859-1
>  $ ls -l jklsdfjkljf
>  ls: jklsdfjkljf: No such file or directory
> 
> Back in August this used to tell me: "Filen eller katalogen finns ej".
> Something has changed.

Works for me, both in current and 1.6_STABLE, both with LANG and LC_MESSAGES

> 
> Any suggestions for enabling Spanish locale?

This works for me:
setenv LC_MESSAGES es
setenv LC_CTYPE es_ES.ISO8859-1

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