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From: Josh Saddler <nightmorph@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LC_ALL=C Set by default for portage
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:15:58
Message-Id: 49B45FB9.3050609@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LC_ALL=C Set by default for portage by "Dawid Węgliński"
1 Dawid Węgliński wrote:
2 > On Sunday 08 of March 2009 23:50:08 Ryan Hill wrote:
3 >
4 >> You do realize that many people don't speak any English, and therefore
5 >> wouldn't be filing bugs anyways? They just want to use their
6 >> computer. I'm not sure they will appreciate you forcing a language they
7 >> don't speak on them any more than I would like to suddenly see all my
8 >> build errors in Myanmar.
9 >
10 > Plz fix the bug [1]
11 >
12 > [1] - http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166730
13 >
14
15 Possible solution:
16
17 Don't set LC_ALL in general unless you're merging to get specific error
18 messages. It's a known issue. Try searching for LC_ALL among CLOSED
19 documentation bugs. Pops up a lot:
20
21 [1] http://tinyurl.com/d3df5y (bug search list)
22 [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260477
23 [3] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bugzilla-howto.xml
24 [4] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3 *
25
26 * Note the big ol' WARNING before code listing 3.1.

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