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2.4 Localizing
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a2ps provides some Native Language Support, that is speaking your mother
tongue.  It uses three special features for non-English languages:
_the tongue_
     i.e., the language used by the interface,

_the date_
     i.e., the format and the words used in the language to specify a
     date.

   To enable these features, properly set your environment variable
'LANG' (see the documentation of your system, for instance 'man locale',
'man environ' etc.).

   The problem with this approach is that a lot more than just messages
and time information is affected: especially the way numbers are written
changes, what may cause problems with 'awk' and such.

   So if you just want messages and time format to be localized, then
define:
     set LC_MESSAGES=fr ; export LC_MESSAGES
     set LC_TIME=fr     ; export LC_TIME