[ale] bash script error

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 13:27 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Monday 19 March 2007 10:39:58 am James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > ok, so I just checked LANG and:
> > > # echo $LANG
> > > en_US.UTF-8
> > >
> > >
> > > is that bad???
> >
> > For _most_ things it's OK. But _some_ bash stuff and _some_ perl stuff
> > it will cause read errors with the files. There are a lot of perl
> > modules that don't support internationalization.
> 
> ok, so what is BETTER for.. most things, and how do I change it?

If your set LANG=C, it will work 99% of the time. It is a subset of the
en_US.UTF-8 character format. But the "C" designation is a bazillion
years old and is destined to go away eventually.

What I do is simply watch for weird compile errors or file read errors
and just the the variable manually as needed to "C".

You can do this from bash with "export LANG=C". If you want to make it
permanent, add that line to your ~/.bashrc file. 
> 
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