From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: "Clinton Bunch" <cdb_zsh@zentaur.org>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: set temporary environment variables for builtins
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:21:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1fad1c05-b6cf-4ec0-b209-1ab04b0fd4ce@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12207c43-6c60-43b5-a993-f3c4dfa72cdb@zentaur.org>
On Sat, Dec 16, 2023, at 2:48 PM, Clinton Bunch wrote:
> Still wondering why the standard syntax for setting a temporary
> environment variable doesn't work for builtins.
It does work, in general.
% print -P '%D{%B}'
December
% LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8 print -P '%D{%B}'
décembre
% print -r -- $LC_TIME
%
> I don't think I'm unusual in expecting this to work:
>
> TZ=Europe/Paris print -P '%D{%z}'
The issue might be unique to TZ or TZ + print, but I'll defer to
someone who actually has a clue (or has time to unearth one).
--
vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-16 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-16 17:59 Clinton Bunch
2023-12-16 18:53 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2023-12-16 19:48 ` Clinton Bunch
2023-12-16 20:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-12-16 20:21 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2023-12-16 20:27 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-12-16 20:31 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-12-16 20:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-12-16 23:53 ` Mikael Magnusson
2023-12-17 0:26 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2023-12-17 7:54 ` Roman Perepelitsa
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