[systemd-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/2] localed: add LANGUAGE= fallback?when LANG= is specified

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 07:11:04AM +0000, Jan Janssen wrote:
> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek <at> in.waw.pl> writes:
> 
> > I think the implementation is fine, since it is rather trivial, but I'm
> > less certain about the implications of setting LANGUAGE in addtion to
> > LANG.
> > 
> > Zbyszek
> 
> Isn't this something that should be in glibc's lang/locale handling code?

They probably could in principle, but those settings are somewhat arbitrary and
at a higher level than libc usually operates. We are already taking care of
configuration of a lot of related stuff, so this seems a natural extension.

Zbyszek