From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@gmail.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
       Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@inbox.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: set LC_MESSAGES=C (as LC_CTYPE=C is)
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Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:17:59 -0800
In-Reply-To: <4B354C70.1060109@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Fri,
	25 Dec 2009 15:36:16 -0800")
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 > The whole reason with only setting some LC_* to C was to be able to
 > leave LC_MESSAGES intact, but it seems it breaks on too many real-life
 > systems.

 > As such, I suggest we should set LC_ALL=C and get rid of the rest of it:

Seems unfortunate to lose localized error messages.  (Although in my
en_US.UTF-8 case, all I get is non-ASCII quote characters)

This all started because of the awk invocation in arch/x86/lib.  Maybe
the best idea would be to confine the locale monkeying to that one
place?

 - R.
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