Re: vcs_info and locales

[Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>]

François Gannaz wrote:
> Le 2010-04-26, Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org> a écrit :
[...]
>> 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).

Probably depends on who you're getting your online manual from.  On this
Linux system, locale(7) describes the effects of the variables are
described quite accurately.

>> 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.

Thanks, I've committed that patch.

Regards, Frank

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