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Re: How LANG environment variable is set?


On 04/24/2014 05:56 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
Angelo Graziosi wrote:
I remember that some time ago I had, in mintty,

$ echo $LANG
it_IT.UTF-8

Now LANG is empty ('echo $LANG' prints nothing).

I notice that /etc/profile.d has lang.sh which should set LANG when I
start mintty. That script contains

test -z "${LC_ALL:-${LC_CTYPE:-$LANG}}" && export LANG=$(/usr/bin/locale -uU)

and at command line, '/usr/bin/locale -uU' prints it_IT.UTF-8...

It looks like /etc/profile sets LC_ALL=C before running the scripts
in /etc/profile.d, then restores it to its original setting. This
prevents LANG getting set by lang.sh.


Good catch.  Yes, the latest version of base_files makes this change to
the profile_d() function.  Looks like the easiest interim solution is to
downgrade to base_files-4.1-2.

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