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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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