Bug#219765: Languagechooser 1.03 dies on mipsel

[Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:26:20PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 09:38:09PM +0000, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> 
> > > if echo $LANG $LC_CTYPE | grep -q UTF-8 ; then
> > >   db_set debconf/language en
> > > else
> > >   db_set debconf/language C
> > > fi
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The code actually goes:
> > echo $LANG $LC_CTYPE | grep -q UTF-8
> > if [ $? ] ; then
> > ...
> 
> That was the original case, which also did not work. The code I cited
> above is the current state in cvs.
> 
> > if this fails, try the variant
> > if `echo $LANG $LC_CTYPE | grep -q UTF-8 ` ; then

What are the backticks for?

-- 
Matt