On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 09:07:10AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 07:57:37 AM Michael Stone wrote: > > those strings are expected to change depending on > > things like locale settings, and are for humans to read, not programs. > > Interesting! I have no argument with what you say, it makes perfect sense, > but it must be one of those things that "goes without saying" -- I can't > claim > to be a Linux guru, but in the years I've spent with Linux and with a fair > amount of reading, I never saw that stated, nor was it ever implied enough > for > me to infer that (nor did I ever have occasion to run into a problem because > of it (I am not the OP).)
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/locale https://wiki.debian.org/Locale If you're writing a program that parses the output of a command, you typically will need to set LANG or LC_ALL to C somewhere in your program, in order to get output in a predictable format.
