Using one locale and another language

Question

I recently installed Arch on my laptop, and I'd prefer to use English for messages and menus and everything like that, while having sorting, decimals etc (everything else controlled by the locale, really) according to the Swedish locale. I tried setting LOCALE=sv_SE.utf8 and LANG=en_US.utf8 in /etc/rc.conf, but that still gives LANG="sv_SE.utf8" in any given environment. Is there a simple way to set this up? I come from gentoo which has /etc/env.d/02locale where you can set each locale varibale individually, which is handy for someone like me.

Answer 1

I have my LOCALE=en_US.utf8 in /etc/rc.conf and the following in /etc/profile:
export LANG="en_US.utf8"
export LC_COLLATE="C"
export LC_TIME="sv_SE.utf8"
export LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.utf8"
export LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE.utf8"
export LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.utf8"
Of course I also have the following in my .bashrc:
if [ -f /etc/profile ]; then
. /etc/profile
fi
Which results in the following:
$ locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.utf8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME=sv_SE.utf8
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY=sv_SE.utf8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=sv_SE.utf8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=
Perhaps you could do with setting just LANG=en_US.utf8 and LC_ALL=sv_SE.utf8?
Last edited by [vEX] (2007-10-13 21:14:50)