Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757572AbZLZBbM (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:31:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757534AbZLZBbK (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:31:10 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34986 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757491AbZLZBbJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:31:09 -0500 Message-ID: <4B356730.2080401@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:30:24 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Dreier CC: Sergei Trofimovich , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek , Sergei Trofimovich Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: set LC_MESSAGES=C (as LC_CTYPE=C is) References: <1261761235-9431-1-git-send-email-slyfox@inbox.ru> <4B354C70.1060109@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1300 Lines: 35 On 12/25/2009 05:17 PM, Roland Dreier wrote: > > > 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) > The whole problem is that for some people we lose *all* messages. This seems all very strange to me at all, but I guess it tweaks some internal detail inside the glibc message library, sigh. > 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? Except that sed, etc. and even the shell itself have the same class of problems. Perl doesn't, since it has saner rules for how regular expressions handle ranges. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/