manpage: improve locale setup in example .xsession (Thanks Harald König)

[i3/i3] / man / i3.man

diff --git a/man/i3.man b/man/i3.man
index 9d34c71038a316e01601ebe7543bffb15e7038a7..c2b9039ca92c3ea08814b5633793a17b29c60914 100644 (file)
--- a/man/i3.man
+++ b/man/i3.man
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ i3 - an improved dynamic, tiling window manager
 
 == SYNOPSIS
 
-i3 [-a] [-c configfile] [-C] [-d <loglevel>] [-v] [-V]
+i3 [-a] [-c configfile] [-C] [-d all] [-v] [-V]
 
 == OPTIONS
 
@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ Specifies an alternate configuration file path.
 -C::
 Check the configuration file for validity and exit.
 
--d::
-Specifies the debug loglevel. To see the most output, use -d all.
+-d all::
+Enables debug logging.
+The 'all' parameter is present for historical reasons.
 
 -v::
 Display version number (and date of the last commit).
@@ -261,19 +262,15 @@ xset -b
 # Enable zapping (C-A-<Bksp> kills X)
 setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
 
-# Enforce correct locales from the beginning
-unset LC_COLLATE
-export LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8
-export LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
-export LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
-export LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
+# Enforce correct locales from the beginning:
+# LC_ALL is unset since it overwrites everything
+# LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 is used, except for:
+# LC_MESSAGES=C never translates program output
+# LC_TIME=en_DK leads to yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm date/time output
+unset LC_ALL
+export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 export LC_MESSAGES=C
-export LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
-export LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
-export LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
-export LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
-export LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
-export LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
+export LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8
 
 # Use XToolkit in java applications
 export AWT_TOOLKIT=XToolkit