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Message-ID: <adar5qizg6w.fsf@roland-alpha.cisco.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:17:59 -0800
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@...ox.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: set LC_MESSAGES=C (as LC_CTYPE=C is)


 > 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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