Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: set LC_MESSAGES=C (as LC_CTYPE=C is)

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Dec 25 2009 - 18:37:24 EST


This is a multi-part message in MIME format.On 12/25/2009 09:13 AM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> We restricted LC_CTYPE to ASCII recently but not messages from, say,
> gcc. So instead of nice warnings I get '???? ??????? ???????'
> (ru_RU.UTF-8 locale) as a gcc warning, which is not nice. So, set
> LC_MESSAGES=C too.

The whole reason with only setting some LC_* to C was to be able to
leave LC_MESSAGES intact, but it seems it breaks on too many real-life
systems.

As such, I suggest we should set LC_ALL=C and get rid of the rest of it:

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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