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Re: After upgrading locale doesn't work



On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 06:12:11PM +0800, Isaac Kar-Keung To wrote:
> >>>>> "Roger" == Roger So <rogerso@sis.dhs.org> writes:

> What breaks is NOT ls, it's emacs, or more exactly, the dirmode of emacs.
> If it only know how to process ISO days, it should invoke ls in the C
> locale.  Otherwise it should process the file lines in some other way.  It's
> not quite acceptable to use the default locale and then fail because it is
> zh_TW.Big5.

Sorry, I'm not familiar with emacs ...

But yes, if a program depends on some other program's output, it should
set the locale to C first before invoking that program ...

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