"Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 08:50:59AM -0800, Jeff King wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 05:42:12PM +0100, Antoine Pelisse wrote:
>>
>> > > This puts all of perl into the C locale, which would mean error messages
>> > > from perl would be in English rather than the user's language. It
>> > > probably isn't a big deal, because that snippet of perl is short and not
>> > > likely to produce problems, but I wonder how hard it would be to set the
>> > > locale just for the strftime call.
>> >
>> > Maybe just setting LC_TIME to C would do ...
>>
>> Yeah, that is a nice simple solution. Dmitry, does just setting LC_TIME
>> fix the problem for you?
>
> Just setting LC_TIME environment variable instead of LC_ALL would end up
> with unreliable solution because LC_ALL has the highest priority.
>
> If keeping error messages from perl has the utmost importance, it could be
> achieved by
> - perl -M'POSIX qw(strftime)' -ne 'BEGIN { $subject = 0 }
> + perl -M'POSIX qw(strftime :locale_h)' -ne '
> + BEGIN { setlocale(LC_TIME, "C"); $subject = 0 }
> but the little perl helper script we are talking about hardly worths so
> much efforts.
Yeah I agree that this is not worth it, I would think.
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