On 2015-03-23 01:09:33 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Maybe I've missed that since the discussion got quite long, but I don't > remember that Vincent actually explained what broke (i.e. I know nothing > that would use LC_CHARMAP or CODPAGE?)... and the others rather just > complained about the silent/automatic change.
The goal is to be able to pass the charmap; the standard environement variables don't carry this information in a portable way, and different Linux systems clash with each other. So, I do that with an unused environament variable, LC_CHARMAP, and use my shell startup file (.zshenv) to set the locales as I expect. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
