Re: [PATCH] devel/man-to-mdwn.pl: portable locale environment variable setting

Subject: Re: [PATCH] devel/man-to-mdwn.pl: portable locale environment variable setting

Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 13:22:54 -0300

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: tomi.ollila@iki.fi

From: David Bremner


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> Setting locale environment variables (LC_* and LANG) to e.g.
> en_US.utf8 works fine on Linux, and that is what locale -a
> returns (in Linux). However this does not work e.g. in some *BSD
> systems.
> In these systems, en_US.UTF-8 works. This also works in Linux
> systems (which may look like a surprising thing on the first sight(*)).
> But that *UTF-8 format seems to be widely used in the Linux system:
> Grep it through the files in /etc/, for example.

pushed to master. If something breaks, complain to Tomi ;)

d

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