On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:17, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So we need "MY_GETTEXT_IS_BROKEN" to decline the use of system gettext > in addition to "NO_GETTEXT" to ask Git not to translate the messages. Is > that correct? I think yes. > If that is the case, should we do something like > > LANG=C LC_ALL=C > export LANG LC_ALL > > in our shell scripts, when building for NO_GETTEXT target? Just for the record: gettext here stays broken with LANG and LC_ALL set to C. But the locale-dependent formatting in C functions will change. Wont be a problem here, though. The named formatting is broken, too: strftime, for instance, always formats in C locale. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html