Subject: Re: Locale
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Sergey N. Lapin <slapin@tec.karelen.elektra.ru>
List: port-pmax
Date: 01/13/2001 22:31:54
> > I have some questions:
> > 1. Maybe offtopic question to this list, but does NetBSD/pmax supports
> > locale setting like LANG=... LC_MESSAGES=... etc?
> 
> Yes, at last in 1.4 and 1.5 (don't remember for previous releases).
> LC_CTYPE support is incomplete though (up to 1.5, it's OK in -current): there's
> support in libc but only 'C' is here. You can install
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/1.4-french/locale.tgz
> (I'm not sure of '1.4-french' but there's 'french' in the directory name)
> and then you can set LC_CTYPE to iso_8859_1 (don't worry about 'i386',
> locale.tgz is machine independant).

Thank you but are there any tools to create locale files available? Could
I use Linux locale files?