From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20353 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2000 09:27:21 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (HELO sunsite.auc.dk) (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 16 Nov 2000 09:27:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 15752 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2000 09:27:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 13168 Received: (qmail 15745 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2000 09:27:14 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer david.siemens.de) From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "ZSH workers mailing list" Subject: Mandrake 7.2 and zsh - locale problems Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:27:08 +0300 Message-ID: <000601c04faf$642d37d0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Now, when I'm proud owner of home PC ... :-) This was fresh install of downloaded ISO. Mandrake sets user locale by sourcing /etc/sysconfig/i18n in one of the /etc/profile.d scripts (sorry if I get paths wrong). The scripts in /etc/profile.d get sourced in /etc/profile for corr. shells. 7.2 is shipped with nearly empty /etc/zprofile that leads to empty LANG, LC_*. That has obvious implications and some interesting effects - e.g. man won't display upper characters (they happen a lot to my surprise even in english manual pages) - instead you get . Offhand - commercial Unices that I am aware of normally set locale parameters exactly once, somewhere near system start (by init) and just let all porcesses inherit it. Both ways probably have there merits and drawbacks. Zsh reports 3.1.9 version. I'd like to recompile the last CVS release - where can I get specs for Zsh RPM, and how do I use them? :-) -andrej Have a nice DOS! B >>