Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest XL REMINDER Tomorrow Saturday June 4, 2011

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen
> <rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
> > > > Boston Linux Installfest XL
> > >
> > >   What makes this installfest bigger than the other ones?  Are more
> > > attendees expected?
> >
> > I think he's running with LC_NUMERIC=la_RM, in which case
> > `XL' is his localised representation of 40.
> 
>   I was joking, in case that wasn't obvious.  :)
> 
>   Is LC_NUMERIC=la_RM a real thing for some stuff, or are you also
> joking?

Yes, that was a HHOS joke :)

"la" is an actual ISO-639-1 language-code, and it does actualy refer
to ancient Latin, but there doesn't appear to be any code for Rome
in ISO 639; so I used "RM", because that's the closest thing I could find.

Yes, I did spend a fair amount of time on the research for that joke... :)

> I tried it on my box Deb 5.0 box and was disappointed "ls -l"
> didn't output Roman numerals for the sizes.   :)

Did you add (or uncomment) "la_RM" (or "la_RM.UTF-8"?) in /etc/locale.gen
and then run the "locale-gen" command?

You know, a given locale isn't actually supported on Debian until you've
done that (or had "dpkg-reconfigure locales" do it for you) :)

-- 
"Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))."