Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> You should *always* set LC_ALL=C when running an external command from
> another program (and most probably from a shell script too).
I think LC_NUMERIC is probably what's wanted in this case, not LC_ALL.
Still, command-line arguments depending on LC_NUMERIC (or worse,
Matthias Clasen writes:
> Until you put a pipe between and turn the outputs of command a into
> inputs of command b...
People will generally be aware that output is locale-dependent. That is
most of the point of having locales at all.
Setting LC_ALL=C is not a nice option. That would mean that
On 01/31/2013 06:01 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
- Original Message
Right, output should be locale specific. Input command line args...
seems
specious.
Until you put a pipe between and turn the outputs of command a into inputs of
command b...
It's a fair point.
I.E. I/O doesn't ro
Matthias Clasen (mcla...@redhat.com) said:
> - Original Message
> >
> > Right, output should be locale specific. Input command line args...
> > seems
> > specious.
>
> Until you put a pipe between and turn the outputs of command a into inputs of
> command b...
But, as said earlier, it
On 01/30/2013 11:05 PM, Benny Amorsen wrote:
Apparently ping has now started interpreting its command line arguments
depending on locale. I.e. ping -i 0.1 no longer works in locales where
comma is the decimal separator.
This makes it difficult to call system commands. The only workaround is
to s
- Original Message
>
> Right, output should be locale specific. Input command line args...
> seems
> specious.
Until you put a pipe between and turn the outputs of command a into inputs of
command b...
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:43:44AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > C locale and not do locale dependent parsing. It would be much more
> > robust and if you are good enough to use the -i switch you probably know
> > how to type 0.1 instead of 0,1 (or whatever format is in your locale) as
> > well
Simo Sorce (s...@redhat.com) said:
> > You should *always* set LC_ALL=C when running an external command from
> > another program (and most probably from a shell script too).
>
> Except when you shouldn't ...
>
> If you are getting arguments that are locale dependent changing the
> locale will d
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 09:07 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:05:16AM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> > This makes it difficult to call system commands. The only workaround is
> > to set LC_ALL to a known-good locale, but then your users get no benefit
> > from the transla
On 31 January 2013 15:04, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 31 January 2013 09:07, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:05:16AM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote:
>>> This makes it difficult to call system commands. The only workaround is
>>> to set LC_ALL to a known-good locale, but then your u
On 31 January 2013 09:07, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:05:16AM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote:
>> This makes it difficult to call system commands. The only workaround is
>> to set LC_ALL to a known-good locale, but then your users get no benefit
>> from the translations of er
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:05:16AM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> This makes it difficult to call system commands. The only workaround is
> to set LC_ALL to a known-good locale, but then your users get no benefit
> from the translations of error messages and so on.
You should *always* set LC_ALL=C
On 2013-01-30, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> Apparently ping has now started interpreting its command line arguments
> depending on locale. I.e. ping -i 0.1 no longer works in locales where
> comma is the decimal separator.
>
> This makes it difficult to call system commands. The only workaround is
> to
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