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> > I am not talking about bash as a programming language, but how to > > invoke programs on the command-line. I think if people want to write > > shell programs, it is easy enough to add export LANG=C and enjoy the > > programming experience as usual. > Well, this means all current scripts are broken. Also, this means > translations of any programs invoked by scripts are broken. That would be so, if specifying the use of option names for language Foo implied disabling the normal (English) names. But we don't need to do that. That setting could mean to accept the translated option names _as well as_ he usual English names. As for scripts, we could arrange for scripts to specify the option language for invocations within the script. by setting an envvr. Can we arrange to do this on the #! line? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
