Bug#922500: luatex and broken locales

[Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>]

Control: reassign -1 texlive-binaries

Am 19.02.2019 um 10:22 teilte luigi scarso mit:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:50 AM Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at 
> <mailto:preining@logic.at>> wrote:

Hi all,

Old issue, I know: https://bugs.debian.org/922500

>     here on Debian we got a bug report that luatex cannot build formats
>     under a broken locale. I can reproduce this on standard TeX Live, too:
>              $ LC_TIME=en_DE.UTF-8 luatex -ini   -jobname=luatex
>     -progname=luatex luatex.ini
>              Unable to read environment locale: exit now.
>              $
>     (same on dev version)
>
>     It comes from the code of luainit
>              env_locale = setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
>              if (!env_locale && !lua_only) {
>                  fprintf(stderr,"Unable to read environment locale: exit
>     now.\n");
>                  exit(1);
>              }
>
>     I agree that the locale is completely broken, and the system does not
>     support this locale.
>
>     BUT it would be nice if luatex would not crash on such a setup, at least
>     during format build?
>
>     WDYT?
>
>
> It's not a bug,  luatex wants a sane locale  --- building a format or 
> not, it doesn't matter.
> We can change it, but for sure not for texlive 2019.
Did you change anything for this issue? I'm not able to reproduce the 
issue any more, but I do not see any change in luainit.c, which expects 
to solve.

Hilmar
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