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On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 07:21:40PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Dec  2 18:21, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote in another thread about setting LANG:
>> >>... Andy and Thomas, please work
>> >>out the best solution together.  It should work in sh and csh.  Then
>> >>post it as reply to http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-12/msg00090.html so
>> >>John can put it into the base-files package.
>> Our worked-out proposal is as follows:
>> 
>> 
>> /etc/profile.d/lang.sh:
>> 
>> # if no locale variable is set, indicate terminal charset via LANG
>> test -z "${LC_ALL:-${LC_CTYPE:-$LANG}}" && export LANG=C.UTF-8
>> 
>> /etc/profile.d/lang.csh:
>> 
>> # if no locale variable is set, indicate terminal charset via LANG
>> ( test $?LC_ALL = 0 || test -z "$LC_ALL" ) && ( test $?LC_CTYPE = 0 || test -z "$LC_CTYPE" ) && ( test $?LANG = 0 || test -z "$LANG" ) && setenv LANG C.UTF-8
>
>Thanks to both of you.

I wasn't paying attention before, so I apologize for not commenting
sooner but couldn't all of the above be one test statement or at least
handled inside '{}' rather than '()'.  Maybe bash optimizes that away
but, if it doesn't, then forking subshells will be rather expensive on
Cygwin.

cgf

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