1.7.1 release date?

[Thomas Wolff]

Andy Koppe schrieb:
> 2009/11/19 Thomas Wolff:
>   
>> As far as I know LANG is a variable predating the LC_ variables in usage, so
>> very few people might know it and not the others, but some other people
>> might know LC_* and not LANG.
>> I think using LC_CTYPE here is better because it's more specific whereas
>> LANG is a generic catch-all setting.
>>     
> The important thing here is that LANG is the lowest-priority setting,
> which ensures that it will not override any user settings.
>   
Yes, but if could redefine them which is not good in the case of 
terminal charset. So the terminal setting should override other user 
settings. I confused my example, let me tweak it:
>> Someone might set LC_MESSAGES=gr to get
>> Greek messages, without caring about the charset here. If that was
>> configured with LC_CTYPE, all is well and they can happily coexist, getting
>> Greek messages in the terminal charset. If it was configured with LANG, it
>> would be overridden and terminal handling would break.
>>     
> Wrong. LC_MESSAGES=gr would override LANG to get Greek messages as
> intended, but it would have no effect on the terminal, which uses
> LC_ALL ?: LC_CTYPE ?: LANG.
>   
Sure. Let's assume someone sets LANG=gr with the intention to get Greek 
messages. If terminal charset was previously configured with LC_CTYPE, 
it will still override, only messages will change to Greek as intended. 
If terminal charset was configured with LANG, it will be broken now.

Thomas