On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 6:54 AM Peter Stephenson <
p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>
> I tend to agree with Bart that a change like the above is probably best
> in the long run.  Directly using zsh's own features inline would be
> clearer (given the core audience here is zsh experts anyway).


I agree that a zsh-specific solution is best.  FWIW, for clarity I would
remove the 'langs' assignment entirely and put the entire construct on the
'for' statement:

  for LANG in en_{US,GB}.{UTF-,utf}8 en.UTF-8 ${(M)$(locale -a
2>/dev/null):#*.(utf8|UTF-8)} ; do