Re: vcs_info and locales

["François Gannaz" <francois.gannaz@free.fr>]

Le 2010-04-26, Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org> a écrit :
> Phil Pennock wrote:
> > On 2010-04-25 at 21:09 +0200, François Gannaz wrote:
> >> Le 2010-04-25, Phil Pennock <zsh-workers+phil.pennock@spodhuis.org> a
> >> écrit :
> >> > On 2010-04-25 at 10:38 +0200, Frank Terbeck wrote:
> >> > > Anyway, could you try the following patch for the locale problem? I
> >> > > think it should solve the issue once and for all.
> >> > 
> >> > I have one concern, which leads to the question: is it really necessary
> >> > to set LC_ALL instead of LC_MESSAGES?
> >> 
> >> Yes it is. I used LC_ALL here because that was the only one that made "svn
> >> info" switch to English when default locale is set to "fr_FR.utf8".
> >
> > In that case, you already had LC_ALL set, which is why part of my
> > proposed solution was to unset it.
> >
> > I've just tested, and svn behaves as I expect for a locale-aware app:
> > LANG is a default, which provides implicit values for LC_<foo> where foo
> > is not ALL.  It's overriden by each LC_<foo> if set.  All of those are
> > overriden by LC_ALL.
> 
> Indeed, LANG is a fallback value used for everything that's
> unset. LC_ALL forces every value to its value.

My mistake, I misread Phil and I didn't understand LC_ALL's role (it's not
documented on locale's man page).

> My patch from workers-27908¹ should do what Phil proposed. Could you try
> if that works for you, François?  This would give all backends C-locale
> messages, which would avoid bugs like this for all of them now and in
> the future.

Works for me.

Regards
--
François