Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells?

[Gremlin <scott-andrews@columbus.rr.com>]

On 2/13/24 16:45, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 01:21:20PM -0800, John Conover wrote:
> >      egrep ALL .bashrc
> >      LC_ALL=C
>
> This has gone pretty far off the rails, but here we are.  Let's address
> this.
>
> DO NOT set LC_ALL in your .bashrc or equivalent files.  This is a horrible
> idea.  LC_ALL should only be used in single commands as a full-powered
> override, for example when you want to report a bug, and need the output
> to be normalized to the "C" locale.

Oh like debian does?

cat /etc/default/locale
#  File generated by update-locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8