Re: Setting Locale

[Mohammed Sameer <Uniball at gmx dot net>]

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My Inbox Happily Received This From Mohammed Elzubeir @ Tue, 31 Dec 2002 11:56:13 -0500

> On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 02:24:02PM +0200, Isam Bayazidi wrote:
> 
> Salam,
> 
> >   As I was translating the setting locale section in the Arabic-howto I 
> > noticed that I use a totally different approach, I only set up the variable 
> > LANG to be: ar_EG.UTF-8, and every thing goes fine, is there a need to set 
> > LANG and LC_CTYPE to be different ? and why not set LANG to a UTF-8 locale ? 
> > such as ar_EG.UTF-8 ? I have LANG set to that with no problem
> > and why use the ar_US ? a simple 'locale -a' does not show that ar_US is 
> > possible, although setting it does not effect anything, but it is not a 
> > locale defined .. I am not sure about this .. are you ? :-)
> > 
> 
> Isam, we talked about this the other day, and I pointed out that there is a note
> at the beginning of that section that says it is incomplete and may contain
> wrong information. In other words, I am very well aware of the fact that some
> of what it has is not fully accurate.
> 
> Like I told you when we were on irc, when I get a chance to do that section completely
> I will.. right now, I am too busy for it.

If i remember right:
Qt looks for the LC_ALL then LC_CTYPE then LANG
just incase your LANG is ar_EG and the LC_CTYPE is en_US, what's gona happen ??

All the stuff is in "qtextcodec.cpp"
I really don't understand the rest of the email !!!!


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