Service-specific default locales

[Florent Thoumie]

Florent Thoumie wrote:
> Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
>> I need to run different services in different locales
>> (basically LANG/LC_ALL changed). Before I look at how
>> to implement it, is there any objection to
>> <name>_locale presetting the two variables to its
>> value (and possibly some error-checking via locale(1)?
>>
>> As for a site-wide default, I currently have "export
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8" in my rc.conf. Should we introduce
>> a general "locale" variable for this?
> 
> Makes sense to me. Have a look at *_nice variable for example.

Thinking about it, maybe something like <name>_env would be better
(cause more generic). Of course you wouldn't be able to do error
checking but I'm not sure it's so useful anyway.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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