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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 11:41:18 +1100
From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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       Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Makefile: Unexport LANG
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On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 10:20:07PM +1100, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 09:14:40PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > On 12/25/2009 08:30 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > >>  
> > >>  # Avoid funny character set dependencies
> > >> +unexport LANG
> > >>  unexport LC_ALL
> > >>  LC_CTYPE=C
> > >>  LC_COLLATE=C
> > > 
> > 
> > At this point, it seems to me that we should just LC_ALL=C and be done
> > with it (see other thread.)
> 
> Sure, that would also work for the case that I'm seeing.
> 
> I tested the following:
> 
> # Avoid funny character set dependencies
> LC_ALL=C
> export LC_ALL
> 
> Though personally I would advocate tweaking the locale as needed closer
> to awk scripts and the like, rather than the high-level general change that
> was made. Fall-out from a high-level change seems inevitable to me.

This seems to still be broken. Can we decide on a solution?