Messages in this thread | | | From | Roland Dreier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: set LC_MESSAGES=C (as LC_CTYPE=C is) | Date | Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:58:28 -0800 |
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> > 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.
I just meant that people used to be able to get localized error messages by setting LANG or whatever. And now they're stuck with ASCII english.
> > 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.
But pretty much everyone on a modern distro has had a UTF8 locale for quite a while. And as far as I know there have been no problems caused by collation order or anything else. So this change to always build in the C locale is just worrying about theoretical problems.
Anyway, not a big deal I guess.
- R.
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