From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@inbox.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: set LC_MESSAGES=C (as LC_CTYPE=C is)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:17:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adar5qizg6w.fsf@roland-alpha.cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B354C70.1060109@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:36:16 -0800")
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-26 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-25 17:13 Sergei Trofimovich
2009-12-25 23:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-26 1:17 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2009-12-26 1:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-26 6:58 ` Roland Dreier
2009-12-26 20:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 14:44 ` Michal Marek
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