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Just out of curiosity, what is the meaning of LC_IDENTIFICATION
?
The reason I am asking is, that a fresh US-English installation of Linux Mint (I guess Ubuntu would be the same), located in “Jerusalem” for time zone, left me with the following mix and match locale in /etc/default/locale
:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC=he_IL.UTF-8 LC_TIME=he_IL.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY=he_IL.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER=he_IL.UTF-8 LC_NAME=he_IL.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=he_IL.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=he_IL.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=he_IL.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=he_IL.UTF-8 LC_ALL=
As I was working to fix it to my liking, I was wondering if I should also update LC_IDENTIFICATION
.
The man
page for locale(1)
says “Metadata about the locale information”, but it does not tell me exactly what the effect of changing it would be. Can you think of any application or API using this variable and how?
Actually, lightdm uses it when available for displaying the current language in the status bar.
– A. Wilcox – 2017-01-14T22:30:13.257ockquote>
It contains information about the locale itself and is rarely useful for users or developers https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Locales