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From: Roland Dreier
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: set LC_MESSAGES=C (as LC_CTYPE=C is)
Date: Friday, December 25, 2009 - 6:17 pm

> The whole reason with only setting some LC_* to C was to be able to
 > leave LC_MESSAGES intact, but it seems it breaks on too many real-life
 > systems.

 > As such, I suggest we should set LC_ALL=C and get rid of the rest of it:

Seems unfortunate to lose localized error messages.  (Although in my
en_US.UTF-8 case, all I get is non-ASCII quote characters)

This all started because of the awk invocation in arch/x86/lib.  Maybe
the best idea would be to confine the locale monkeying to that one
place?

 - R.
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[PATCH] Kbuild: set LC_MESSAGES=C (as LC_CTYPE=C is), Sergei Trofimovich, (Fri Dec 25, 10:13 am)
Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: set LC_MESSAGES=C (as LC_CTYPE=C is), H. Peter Anvin, (Fri Dec 25, 4:36 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: set LC_MESSAGES=C (as LC_CTYPE=C is), Roland Dreier, (Fri Dec 25, 6:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: set LC_MESSAGES=C (as LC_CTYPE=C is), H. Peter Anvin, (Fri Dec 25, 6:30 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: set LC_MESSAGES=C (as LC_CTYPE=C is), Roland Dreier, (Fri Dec 25, 11:58 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: set LC_MESSAGES=C (as LC_CTYPE=C is), H. Peter Anvin, (Sat Dec 26, 1:04 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: set LC_MESSAGES=C (as LC_CTYPE=C is), Michal Marek, (Mon Jan 4, 7:44 am)