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Re: Problem with Bash regex test case sensitivity


On 4 December 2010 21:08, Lee wrote:
> So... Âthe reason for setting LANG is a shorthand method of setting
> all the LC_xxx environment variables?

Yes. Setting LC_ALL does that too, but the difference between LC_ALL
and LANG is that LC_ALL takes precedence over the specific LC_xxx
variables, whereas LANG does not. Hence, LANG allows you to set all
locale categories while still allowing specific ones such as
LC_COLLATE to be overridden. (Perhaps things would be a bit clearer if
LANG had been called LC_DEFAULT or some such.)

Andy

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