Re: Is termwrap working as expected?

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Petter Reinholdtsen 

| [Junichi Uekawa]
| > Why is base-config so special that it needs to care that much
| > about users setting invalid locales ?
| 
| Perl will complain every time it is executed if base-config passes on
| an invalid LANG variable.  This is bad and will confuse the users.

setting PERL_BADLANG=0 makes perl shut up.  However, what you are
writing below is more important.

| And, even worse, the install can present unreadable text if the locale
| is valid, but the charset is incompatible with the console or the
| current terminal.  This is bad as well.

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Tollef Fog Heen
Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.