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Bug#138468: locale warnings while extracting base



On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 04:52:08PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 16:43, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > If we remove the `@utf-8', does something actually break?
> 
> Right now?  Yes, dbootstrap selects LC based on the presence of the
> "utf-8" string, so you won't even get off the ground without it.  I
> suspect that this kind of thing is quite pervasive, either looking
> directly at LC_CTYPE or inspecting the result of nl_langinfo(LC_CTYPE).

OK, I see that code now.  Do we need to set LC_CTYPE, or could
we use a new variable (e.g., USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER) instead?  I'm
not exactly sure what the second sentence means: where else is
LC_CTYPE being inspected?

Matt

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