X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:36:53 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Base-Files (was Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile?) Message-ID: <20091202183652.GA13591@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4B14573C.3040409@alice.it> <20091201091515.GC30043@calimero.vinschen.de> <89d87180772edf0cb5974b7d21ed1f50.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> <20091202093042.GO8059@calimero.vinschen.de> <4B16A22A.4070402@towo.net> <20091202182140.GT8059@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091202182140.GT8059@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple