Bug#922500: luatex and broken locales

[luigi scarso]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 12:28 PM Hilmar Preuße  wrote:

> > It's not a bug,  luatex wants a sane locale  --- building a format or
> > not, it doesn't matter.
> > We can change it, but for sure not for texlive 2019.
> >
> Did you change anything for this issue? I'm not able to reproduce the
> issue any more, but I do not see any change in luainit.c, which expects
> to solve.
>

No change, and I have
$> LC_TIME=en_DE.UTF-8 luatex -ini   -jobname=luatex -progname=luatex
luatex.ini
Unable to read environment locale: exit now.
( This is LuaTeX, Version 1.13.0 (TeX Live 2021/dev) )

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Bug#922500: luatex and broken locales

[Hilmar Preuße]

Control: reassign -1 texlive-binaries

Am 19.02.2019 um 10:22 teilte luigi scarso mit:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:50 AM Norbert Preining > wrote:


Hi all,

Old issue, I know: https://bugs.debian.org/922500


here on Debian we got a bug report that luatex cannot build formats
under a broken locale. I can reproduce this on standard TeX Live, too:
         $ LC_TIME=en_DE.UTF-8 luatex -ini   -jobname=luatex
-progname=luatex luatex.ini
         Unable to read environment locale: exit now.
         $
(same on dev version)

It comes from the code of luainit
         env_locale = setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
         if (!env_locale && !lua_only) {
             fprintf(stderr,"Unable to read environment locale: exit
now.\n");
             exit(1);
         }

I agree that the locale is completely broken, and the system does not
support this locale.

BUT it would be nice if luatex would not crash on such a setup, at least
during format build?

WDYT?


It's not a bug,  luatex wants a sane locale  --- building a format or 
not, it doesn't matter.

We can change it, but for sure not for texlive 2019.

Did you change anything for this issue? I'm not able to reproduce the 
issue any more, but I do not see any change in luainit.c, which expects 
to solve.


Hilmar
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Bug#922500: luatex and broken locales

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Luigi,

On Tue, 19 Feb 2019, luigi scarso wrote:
> It's not a bug,  luatex wants a sane locale  --- building a format or not,
> it doesn't matter.

I agree completely, and I agree that for a user run where the locale
might specify a different encoding for their files or whatever.
But during format dump phase this should not be necessary I *guess*.

Anyway, I agree with ..

> We can change it, but for sure not for texlive 2019.

that.

Best

Norbert

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Bug#922500: luatex and broken locales

[luigi scarso]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:50 AM Norbert Preining  wrote:

> Hi Luigi,
>
> here on Debian we got a bug report that luatex cannot build formats
> under a broken locale. I can reproduce this on standard TeX Live, too:
> $ LC_TIME=en_DE.UTF-8 luatex -ini   -jobname=luatex
> -progname=luatex luatex.ini
> Unable to read environment locale: exit now.
> $
> (same on dev version)
>
> It comes from the code of luainit
> env_locale = setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
> if (!env_locale && !lua_only) {
> fprintf(stderr,"Unable to read environment locale: exit
> now.\n");
> exit(1);
> }
>
> I agree that the locale is completely broken, and the system does not
> support this locale.
>
> BUT it would be nice if luatex would not crash on such a setup, at least
> during format build?
>
> WDYT?
>

It's not a bug,  luatex wants a sane locale  --- building a format or not,
it doesn't matter.
We can change it, but for sure not for texlive 2019.

-- 
luigi

Bug#922500: luatex and broken locales

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Luigi,

here on Debian we got a bug report that luatex cannot build formats
under a broken locale. I can reproduce this on standard TeX Live, too:
$ LC_TIME=en_DE.UTF-8 luatex -ini   -jobname=luatex -progname=luatex 
luatex.ini
Unable to read environment locale: exit now.
$
(same on dev version)

It comes from the code of luainit
env_locale = setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
if (!env_locale && !lua_only) {
fprintf(stderr,"Unable to read environment locale: exit now.\n");
exit(1);
}

I agree that the locale is completely broken, and the system does not
support this locale.

BUT it would be nice if luatex would not crash on such a setup, at least
during format build?

WDYT?

Norbert

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