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I've added in password suite 980724 nls and locale support (currently
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only for greek). Before compiling (configuring) you must have set the
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environment variable LINGUAS=el for greek or LINGUAS="" just for english.
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To see your language at login (to the other programs export LANG=el is
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enough) when you enter your login add LANG=xx, where xx is your language.
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An other way to accomplish it is change the variable ENVIRON_FILE in
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/etc/login.defs from /etc/environment to .environment. Thus any user
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can add, to his .environment file, his language eg. LANG=el.
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Nikos Mavroyanopoulos
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nmav@i-net.paiko.gr
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Note: i18n support as of this release (981218) can have some rough
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edges - because of the large number of files updated, there is always
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a possibility that I have introduced some new bugs. There are also
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potential security problems in GNU gettext (both the included one and
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one found in glibc 2.0.x) related to environment variables (LANG,
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LANGUAGE, LC_*, NLSPATH) when used in setuid programs. I have tried
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to work around them in sanitize_env() but no guarantees. The problem
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has been reported to the gettext maintainer.
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Also, you may not be able to legally distribute binaries compiled
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with included gettext (GPL and BSD-like licenses are not compatible).
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I believe that distribution in the same source archive is OK though
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(it's a "mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
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with the Program" - here Program == gettext library - "on a volume of
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a storage or distribution medium"). Please tell the FSF politely that
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they should consider changing the gettext license to LGPL. Thanks!
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Marek
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