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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 03:13:28 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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To: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: How LANG environment variable is set?
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Greetings, Larry Hall (Cygwin)!

>> 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.

Actually, it might help to set LANG in user's profile instead.
I have this bit of code, working quite well:

case "$TERM" in
  xterm*)
    LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
    ;;
  *)
    LANG=ru_RU.CP866
    ;;
esac

(mintty sets "xterm", so does xterm itself and other shells I connect to this
system with.)


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 26.04.2014, <03:11>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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