#!/bin/sh

# Locale settings for desktop machines
# as run by the author of this `dotfiles` repository

# Requires the en_US.UTF-8, en_DK.UTF-8, en_IE.UTF-8, and de_DE.UTF-8
# locales be installed which is checked by ~/.local/bin/ensure-locales

# Other hosts (e.g., servers) usually lack some of these locales,
# and Debian's /etc/ssh/ssh_config forwards all of them via `SendEnv LANG LC_*`
# => ~/.local/bin/ssh, ~/.local/bin/scp, and ~/.local/bin/sftp
#    send `LC_ALL=C.UTF-8` on top to mask them on remote hosts


export LANG=en_US.UTF-8               # Fallback for any (future) LC_* not set below


# Base: US English for language, text handling, and sorting

export LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8         # Dictionary sort order => Ignore punctuation
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8           # UTF-8 character classification
export LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8         # 1,234.56 rather than 1.234,56


# Exceptions: European conventions with English number formatting

export LC_MEASUREMENT=en_IE.UTF-8     # Use the metric system
export LC_MONETARY=en_IE.UTF-8        # Euro with 1,234.56
export LC_PAPER=en_IE.UTF-8           # Use DIN-A4 for a page
export LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8            # ISO dates, 24h clock, Monday first


# (German) metadata

export LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8         # German postal layout
export LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8       # For "+49" and "030 12345"


export TZ="Europe/Berlin"