On 12/25/2009 09:13 AM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > We restricted LC_CTYPE to ASCII recently but not messages from, say, > gcc. So instead of nice warnings I get '???? ??????? ???????' > (ru_RU.UTF-8 locale) as a gcc warning, which is not nice. So, set > LC_MESSAGES=C too. 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: -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.