Here are patches for this bug for sarge and sid. The sarge patch
takes the conservative approach and unsets LC_ALL And later sets it
again, and the sid version completely removes LC_ALL. It would be
nice to get this change into sarge since serial consoles installs are
quite ugly without it.
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
--- termwrap~ 2004-12-29 20:19:17.000000000 +0000
+++ termwrap 2004-12-29 20:20:42.000000000 +0000
@@ -199,6 +199,8 @@
######################################################################
## Recognize terminal type.
######################################################################
+ORIG_LC_ALL=$LC_ALL
+unset LC_ALL
case `/usr/bin/tty` in
/dev/console)
# Use fgconsole to detect if it is a serial console.
@@ -236,6 +238,8 @@
TERMINAL=serial
;;
esac
+LC_ALL=$ORIG_LC_ALL
+export LC_ALL
# If the default linux kernel TERM setting is used for serial consoles, change
# it to vt100. This assume serial consoles understand vt100. Almost
--- termwrap~ 2004-12-29 20:19:17.000000000 +0000
+++ termwrap 2004-12-29 21:03:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -169,9 +169,8 @@
unset LANGUAGE_INST
fi
LANG=$LANG_INST
- LC_ALL=$LANG_INST
LC_COLLATE=C
- export LANG LC_ALL LC_COLLATE
+ export LANG LC_COLLATE
unset LANG_INST
else
unset LANG_INST
@@ -184,9 +183,8 @@
unset LANGUAGE_INST
fi
LANG=$LANG_INST
- LC_ALL=$LANG_INST
LC_COLLATE=C
- export LANG LC_ALL LC_COLLATE
+ export LANG LC_COLLATE
unset LANG_INST
fi
