Locale settings not honoured - file bug report?

[Terry]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> On 12/9/06, Terry <teaman at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>   
>>> On 12/8/06, Terry <teaman at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>>>       
>> Thank you.  I have no idea why just adding the file reference should
>> invoke the settings it contains but I've done that anyway.  The file is
>> /etc/X11/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc
>>
>>     
>
> The period is like an include operator in sh. So
> period-space-filename is as if that file's contents were cut and
> pasted into the current script.
>
> So, to be perhaps excessively detailed, you are now including the
> contents of a system wide file in the script that launched Xfce.
> xinitrc loads values from /etc/sysconfig/i18n, and then launched the
> session manager, the session manager inherits those locale values and
> passes them on to the various applications it starts, like the panel,
> or the file manager. Apps then launched from the panel, the file
> manager, or the desktop inherit the locale.
>
> Tell me if this works

Ah.  I missed the period, followed by two spaces.

Will report again after the next boot up.

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