Simo Sorce (simo@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > You should *always* set LC_ALL=C when running an external command from > > another program (and most probably from a shell script too). > > Except when you shouldn't ... > > If you are getting arguments that are locale dependent changing the > locale will do you more harm than good, so now you need to parse > arguments before changing locale, assuming you know what the locale of > the arguments is and how to translate them to the C locale. > > System commands should probably not change their syntax based on locale. > Ping can very well document that the -i argument takes an interval using > C locale and not do locale dependent parsing. It would be much more > robust and if you are good enough to use the -i switch you probably know > how to type 0.1 instead of 0,1 (or whatever format is in your locale) as > well. Right, output should be locale specific. Input command line args... seems specious. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
