Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:30:24 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: set LC_MESSAGES=C (as LC_CTYPE=C is) |
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On 12/25/2009 05:17 PM, Roland Dreier wrote: > > > The whole reason with only setting some LC_* to C was to be able to > > leave LC_MESSAGES intact, but it seems it breaks on too many real-life > > systems. > > > As such, I suggest we should set LC_ALL=C and get rid of the rest of it: > > Seems unfortunate to lose localized error messages. (Although in my > en_US.UTF-8 case, all I get is non-ASCII quote characters) >
The whole problem is that for some people we lose *all* messages. This seems all very strange to me at all, but I guess it tweaks some internal detail inside the glibc message library, sigh.
> This all started because of the awk invocation in arch/x86/lib. Maybe > the best idea would be to confine the locale monkeying to that one > place?
Except that sed, etc. and even the shell itself have the same class of problems. Perl doesn't, since it has saner rules for how regular expressions handle ranges.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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