Where is the $LANG variable defined?

[Björn Persson]

Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:

> In FC3's current version of ssh stuff there is a new? (to me) flag
> that lets specific environment variables pass.  Something like...
> 
>      ssh -o"SendEnv blat" xtl1
> 
> If this works as expected one could pass $LANG and get a forward
> looking language match.  Language and timezone info seem like good
> choices of variables to pass.  This is not enabled by default
> and warrants some inspection...

Setting LANG on the remote system to match that on the local system 
should make messages from locale-aware programs look right, but ls and 
Bash don't transcode filenames so file listings would be damaged and 
filenames typed on the command line would be wrong.

Björn Persson