"documentation of the meaning and hierarchy of LANG, LANGUAGE and LC_ is scattered across a number of places which I agree is unfortunate. [...] I'd think that having it documented in only one place and have other manpages refer to that places would be the way to go."
Maybe we can prepare a list of where this stuff is currently documented.
I just commented on the related bug 872343
"documentation of the meaning and hierarchy of LANG, LANGUAGE and LC_ is scattered across a number of places which I agree is unfortunate. [...] I'd think that having it documented in only one place and have other manpages refer to that places would be the way to go."
Maybe we can prepare a list of where this stuff is currently documented.
man 1 locale
man 3 gettext
man 3 setlocale