I would suppose that without a valid locale LANG or the LC_* variables, there would be some other default - that it's not randomly picking a locale.
On a "normal" Unix/Linux system, I would expect "C" locale (or perhaps a system setting) to be that default. But Macs are a bit odd; their native apps get some defaults from system preference settings. What are your language and region settings there? > On Feb 13, 2020, at 03:50, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [macports-ports 83eb0fba14b88745b29c0efa5d29aa73ee69c04b from 2020-02-12] > > > Folks, > > > on my Lion box, calling > > LANG= bison ... > > I suddenly get *German* output! Ditto for other programs like 'info', > 'ggrep', etc., that come with '.po' files. Is this normal? Is this a > new gettext feature? > > > Werner >
