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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:24:17 -0400
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On 04/24/2014 05:13 PM, 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...
>
>
> If I start mintty (LANG empty) and the copy/paste the above lang.sh line,
> after an <ENTER> I get
>
> $ echo $LANG
> it_IT.UTF-8
>
> It is as if the script was not executed... or not? but surely I am missing
> something..

WJFFM.  What's the shell you're running?  Are you setting the local and/or
character set in mintty itself?  Is '/etc/profile' or any of the other
profile scripts being run?  Perhaps cygcheck output would help if you can't
find out where things are going awry.

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Larry

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