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@@ -8,27 +8,12 @@ Comprehensive Perl Archive Network CPAN at http://www.cpan.org/.
The following notes are meant to be a quick start guide for somewhat
experienced users and system administrators and many important details had to
-be omitted for brevity. If you have any difficulties with the
-internationalization features of this package, no matter if you are a
-programmer, a translator, or an end user, feel free to ask at the mailing list
-for libintl-perl. To do so, send an e-mail to the address
-<libintl-perl AT imperia DOT net> (please replace "AT" with a "@", and "DOT"
-with a dot ".").
-
-You can subscribe to this list at
-
- http://ml.imperia.org/mailman/listinfo/libintl-perl
-
-A searchable archive of earlier postings is located at
-
- http://ml.imperia.org/libintl-perl/
-
-You may already find an answer to your question there.
+be omitted for brevity.
Feel free to include this document in your own Perl packages internationalized
with libintl-perl, no severe copyright restrictions apply. You should send
-corrections or improvements to the author Guido Flohr <guido AT imperia DOT
-net>, so that others can benefit from your changes.
+corrections or improvements to the author Guido Flohr <guido DOT flohr AT cantanea DOT
+com>, so that others can benefit from your changes.
The End User's View
===================
@@ -44,7 +29,7 @@ Perl Setup
----------
The I18N library libintl-perl will run with a wide range of Perl versions (at
-least from Perl version 5.005_03 to Perl 5.8.0) but you will experience slight
+least from Perl version 5.005_03) but you will experience slight
difference in features and performance depending on the version of Perl you
use.
@@ -98,8 +83,13 @@ variables.
If "LANGUAGE" is not set, the library checks the variable "LANG". It has the
same syntax as "LANGUAGE" but does not allow the preferences chain with the
-colon syntax. After "LANG" the variable "LC_MESSAGES" (think "locale category
-messages") is tried, and finally "LC_ALL".
+colon syntax. After "LANG" the variable "LC_ALL" is tried, and finally
+"LC_MESSAGES" (think "locale category messages").
+
+IMPORTANT! The environment variable "LANGUAGE" is ignored, if neither the
+environment variable "LC_ALL" or "LC_MESSAGES" is set to a valid locale on
+your system. It is also ignored, if the resulting locale is the fallback
+locale "C" or "POSIX".
Note for Microsoft Windows users: The locale preferences you have configured
for your system cannot yet be evaluated by libintl-perl. This may change for
@@ -121,7 +111,7 @@ variable "OUTPUT_CHARSET" to the appropriate value, for example:
OUTPUT_CHARSET=iso-8859-1
export OUTPUT_CHARSET
-Charset names are case-insensitive, i. e. "LATIN-1" is the equivalent to
+Charset names are case-insensitive, i. e. "LATIN-1" is equivalent to
"Latin-1" or even "lAtIn-1".
Note: The output charset "utf8" is NOT recognized. Please use the correct