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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:56:21 -0700
From: David Rothenberger <daveroth AT acm DOT org>
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Subject: Re: How LANG environment variable is set?
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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.

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