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Re: lintian groff-message warning "can't set the locale"



On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 08:16:43PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 at 18:35:53 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > LC_ALL should imply LANG
> 
> One thing that it does not imply is LANGUAGE, used for LC_MESSAGES as a
> GNU extension (at a higher precedence than even LC_ALL).

Indeed, though I don't believe it's possible for it to cause the warning
message in question here (which results from setlocale (LC_ALL, "")
returning NULL).

If all else fails then setting MAN_NO_LOCALE_WARNING=1 may be a viable
workaround.

-- 
Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org]


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