On 31 January 2013 15:04, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 31 January 2013 09:07, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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). >> > > I can imagine the problem is general (e.g. programs that need to deal > with real scalar numbers), but is interpreting IP addresses according > to locale decimal separators actually correct? The '.' in 127.0.0.1 or > Ubuntu 10.03 doesn't mean the same thing as in 3/2=1.5. > Before anyone else replies... -i to ping is an interval, not an address. So 0.1s=100ms is potentially translatable. Though I'm not sure localisation should really trump functionality in quite this way. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
