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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: Better battery info/status files
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On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote:

> For the end-user, the ability to see readings in other units would be
> useful - how many people on this list work in litres/metres/kilometres,
> and how many in gallons/feet/miles? Probably enough in both groups that
> neither could count as universal...

Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by 
echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.

-- 
dwmw2


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