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Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-63
Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> On Nov 7 20:38, Eric Backus wrote:
> > Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert <at> alum.mit.edu> writes:
> >
> > > How do I make this work, while maintaining:
> > >
> > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > >
> > > - Jim
> >
> > You might try "LANG=en_us.UTF-8" (Note the lower-case "us"). It seems to
>
> That's not correct. The result is that the locale will still be "C".
> The above LANG setting will be refused since the territory part of the
> locale specifier must be uppercase. See
> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html#setup-locale-ov
>
> Corinna
OK, my bad. Sorry.
I must say I find the ls behavior quite confusing. It appears that *any*
valid setting of LANG other than "C" results in the iso time style, and --time-
style=locale never has any effect regardless of the setting of LANG. Feature?
or defect?
--
Eric
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