Bug#591334: libc6: LANGUAGE not taken into account unless LC_MESSAGES is set
On 2010-09-14 17:31:49 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> From what I understand both LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES should not be set
> to the "C" locale (or "POSIX" one). It seems the goal is to make sure
> the translated messages could be displayed correctly, which would not be
> the case otherwise.
I don't think this is the reason since fr_FR may need UTF-8
or ISO-8859-15 to be displayed correctly, while I get French
messages in ISO-8859-1 locales. And there's the same display
problem with:
LC_MESSAGES=zh_CN LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 cp
thus without LANGUAGE at all.
IMHO, the "C" locale is checked mainly for programs that run
entirely under C locales (e.g. LC_ALL=C) for portable behavior.
But the test chosen by the glibc has drawbacks.
Note: some software need UTF-8 locales to behave correctly thus
requiring something like LC_ALL=en_US.UTF8, so the C locale test
isn't even the right one.
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