linux-kernel - Re: exporting LANG=C (Re: [PATCH] override build timestamp)

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702180250350.14458@scrub.home>
Date:	Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:57:26 +0100 (CET)
From:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
cc:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: exporting LANG=C (Re: [PATCH] override build timestamp)

Hi,

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Oleg Verych wrote:

> could you make separate patch with exporting 'LANG=C' on the very
> beginning and delete all other occurrences of it? It's a C header file
> generation and afaik, it must be ASCII.

Bad idea, most user output should be localized (even if it's only utf-8) 
and some kconfig targets have explicit locale support.

bye, Roman
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