<html> <head> <title>MHonArc Resources: LANG</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../docstyles.css"> </head> <body> <!--x-rc-nav--> <table border=0><tr valign="top"> <td align="left" width="50%">[Prev: <a href="labelstyles.html">LABELSTYLES</a>]</td><td><nobr>[<a href="../resources.html#lang">Resources</a>][<a href="../mhonarc.html">TOC</a>]</nobr></td><td align="right" width="50%">[Next: <a href="lastpglink.html">LASTPGLINK</a>]</td></tr></table> <!--/x-rc-nav--> <hr> <h1>LANG</h1> <!--X-TOC-Start--> <ul> <li><a href="#syntax">Syntax</a> <li><a href="#description">Description</a> <li><a href="#default">Default Setting</a> <li><a href="#rcvars">Resource Variables</a> <li><a href="#examples">Examples</a> <li><a href="#version">Version</a> <li><a href="#seealso">See Also</a> </ul> <!--X-TOC-End--> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2><a name="syntax">Syntax</a></h2> <dl> <dt><strong>Envariable</strong></dt> <dd><p> <code>M2H_LANG=</code><var>locale</var> </p> </dd> <dt><strong>Element</strong></dt> <dd><p> <code><LANG></code><br> <var>locale</var><br> <code></LANG></code><br> </p> </dd> <dt><strong>Command-line Option</strong></dt> <dd><p> <code>-lang </code><var>locale</var> </p> </dd> </dl> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2><a name="description">Description</a></h2> <p>LANG sets the locale. Setting the locale affects the following MHonArc operations: </p> <ul> <li><p>Message sorting: Locale properties for string collation are applied when sorting messages by subject or author. </p> <li><p>Resource file loading: Locale-specific resource files will be checked for. See <a href="rcfile.html#locale">RCFILE</a> for more information. </p> <li><p>POSIX date/time formating: If <a href="posixstrftime.html">POSIXSTRFTIME</a> is enabled, locale-specific formatting will be applied. See your system's <b><tt>strftime()</tt></b> manual page for more information. </p> </ul> <p>The basic format for specifying a locale is: </p> <pre><var>language</var>_<var>country</var>.<var>codeset</var> </pre> <p>Where <tt><var>codeset</var></tt></tt> and <tt><var>country</var></tt> are optional. The <tt><var>language</var></tt> and <tt><var>country</var></tt> are short codes defined by the standards <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639">ISO 639</a> (language) and <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code">ISO 3166</a> (country), The <tt><var>codeset</var></tt></tt> represents a specific character encoding, like ISO8859-1. You will need to consult your system documentation for what locales, and their formats, are supported. </p> <table class="note" width="100%"> <tr valign="baseline"> <td><strong>NOTE:</strong></td> <td width="100%"><p>On Unix-based system, the command <b><tt>locale</tt></b> may be available to get list of all supported locales for you system. </p> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2><a name="default">Default Setting</a></h2> <p>The value of the <tt>LC_ALL</tt> or <tt>LANG</tt> environment variables. </p> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2><a name="rcvars">Resource Variables</a></h2> <p>N/A </p> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2><a name="examples">Examples</a></h2> <p>LANG gives you the ability to create locale-specific archives on a single system. For example, let's say the you manage several English-based archives and the default locale for your system is <tt>en_US</tt>. However, you would now like to host a Japanese-based archive on the same system. </p> <p>For the Japanese archive, you may want to set LANG as follows: </p> <pre class="code"> <b><Lang></b> ja_JP <b></Lang></b> </pre> <p>If you plan on using a specific codeset (see <a href="textencode.html">TEXTENCODE</a> and <a href="charsetconverters.html">CHARSETCONVERTERS</a>) you should specify the codeset. For example, if the archives will be in UTF-8, you should use: </p> <pre class="code"> <b><Lang></b> ja_JP.utf8 <b></Lang></b> </pre> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2><a name="version">Version</a></h2> <p>2.6.7 </p> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2><a name="seealso">See Also</a></h2> <p> <a href="charsetconverters.html">CHARSETCONVERTERS</a>, <a href="rcfile.html#locale">RCFILE</a>, <a href="textencode.html">TEXTENCODE</a> </p> <p> <a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/perllocale.html">perllocale</a> manual page. </p> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <!--x-rc-nav--> <table border=0><tr valign="top"> <td align="left" width="50%">[Prev: <a href="labelstyles.html">LABELSTYLES</a>]</td><td><nobr>[<a href="../resources.html#lang">Resources</a>][<a href="../mhonarc.html">TOC</a>]</nobr></td><td align="right" width="50%">[Next: <a href="lastpglink.html">LASTPGLINK</a>]</td></tr></table> <!--/x-rc-nav--> <hr> <address> $Date: 2005/06/07 19:15:44 $<br> <img align="top" src="../monicon.png" alt=""> <a href="http://www.mhonarc.org/"><strong>MHonArc</strong></a><br> Copyright © 2003,2005 <a href="http://www.earlhood.com/" >Earl Hood</a>, <a href="mailto:mhonarc%40mhonarc.org" >mhonarc<!-- -->@<!-- -->mhonarc.org</a><br> </address> </body> </html>