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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Kbuild: set LC_MESSAGES=C (as LC_CTYPE=C is)
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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