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Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:32:50 -0400
From:	"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: How LANG environment variable is set?
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On 04/24/2014 05:56 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
> Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>> I remember that some time ago I had, in mintty,
>>
>> $ echo $LANG
>> it_IT.UTF-8
>>
>> Now LANG is empty ('echo $LANG' prints nothing).
>>
>> I notice that /etc/profile.d has lang.sh which should set LANG when I
>> start mintty. That script contains
>>
>> test -z "${LC_ALL:-${LC_CTYPE:-$LANG}}" && export LANG=$(/usr/bin/locale -uU)
>>
>> and at command line, '/usr/bin/locale -uU' prints it_IT.UTF-8...
>
> It looks like /etc/profile sets LC_ALL=C before running the scripts
> in /etc/profile.d, then restores it to its original setting. This
> prevents LANG getting set by lang.sh.
>

Good catch.  Yes, the latest version of base_files makes this change to
the profile_d() function.  Looks like the easiest interim solution is to
downgrade to base_files-4.1-2.

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Larry

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