From c91fcc2615fadf9cff6c9c51d086ac2ba9651aa4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Barton <alex@barton.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:51:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Implement "intelligent" locale setting

Set the locale if it is not set or doesn't contain a dot;
but all system messages should still be in "native" ("C") language.
---
 sys/profile | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sys/profile b/sys/profile
index 9920eb1..ef07918 100644
--- a/sys/profile
+++ b/sys/profile
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@
 PROFILEREAD="true"
 export PROFILEREAD
 
+# Set locale if it is not set or doesn't contain a dot;
+# but all system messages should still be in "native" ("C") language.
+[ "$LANG" = "${LANG#*.}" ] && export LANG="${LANG:-de_DE}.ISO8859-1"
+export LC_MESSAGES="C"
+
 # Initialize PATH variable
 export PATH MANPATH
 if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
-- 
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