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

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Fri Dec 25 2009 - 20:18:13 EST



> 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:

Seems unfortunate to lose localized error messages. (Although in my
en_US.UTF-8 case, all I get is non-ASCII quote characters)

This all started because of the awk invocation in arch/x86/lib. Maybe
the best idea would be to confine the locale monkeying to that one
place?

- R.
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