Re: hypermail requires en_US locale

[Mark Davies <mark%mcs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>]

On Wed, 05 Nov 2008, Roy Marples wrote:
> hypermail requires en_US locale for any English based language
> which does not exist on NetBSD.
> Google shows a few programs reference this locale, and a simple fix
> is to alias it to en_US.ISO8859-1 in
> /usr/share/locale/locale.alias.
>
> Or should we fix hypermail to use en_US.ISO8859-1 instead of en_US?

openoffice wouldn't mind an en_US alias also.  Currently (with no 
locale set in the environment) it prints out 

  I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US"

on startup which worries some of our users.

cheers
mark