Bill Allombert dixit: >Fortunately, since Sarge, debian-installer set LANG in >/etc/environment so programs almost never run under C locale anymore.
Except the ton which sets LC_ALL=C to get sane (parsable, dependable, historically compatible) output. These would then unset all other LC_* and LANG and LANGUAGE, and only set LC_CTYPE to C.UTF-8 to get "old" behaviour but with UTF-8 (and mbrtowc and iswctype and and and) available. For what it's worth: vorlon gave me the means to change the mksh regression test (LOCPATH), so that this will no longer block it on the HURD. However, I'm still in favour of a de- fault UTF-8 locale (be it C.UTF-8 or en_US.UTF-8) installed plus, maybe, one binary package per locale? Aurelien - if I remember correctly - said something along these lines too. bye, //mirabilos -- [...] if maybe ext3fs wasn't a better pick, or jfs, or maybe reiserfs, oh but what about xfs, and if only i had waited until reiser4 was ready... in the be- ginning, there was ffs, and in the middle, there was ffs, and at the end, there was still ffs, and the sys admins knew it was good. :) -- Ted Unangst über *fs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
