Paul Eggert wrote: > I think this is the right sort of fix, though I'm puzzled as to why > the code set LC_ALL to the empty string in the first place. > ... > Do you recall why they were set to '' back then?
Yes, my archives tell me: On 2000-10-15, I sent Jim a mail, reporting testsuite failures, with a patch that set LANGUAGE= LC_ALL=C for two particular commands. On 2000-10-18, Jim replied: > I've fixed it slightly differently: > ... > +# Make sure the programs use C-locale formats/translations. > +LANGUAGE=C; export LANGUAGE > +LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL > +LANG=C; export LANG On 2000-10-21, I replied: > "C" is not a valid language specifier. "LANGUAGE=''; export LANGUAGE" > or "unset LANGUAGE" is better. On 2000-10-23, Jim replied: > Thanks! I've changed them all -- in fileutils, at least. And since at that time I wasn't aware of a system for which LC_ALL='' has different effects than LC_ALL=C (and POSIX:2001 was not out), I didn't object to LC_ALL=''. Bruno _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
