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 when running an external command from
another program (and most probably from a shell script too).
Rich.
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