-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' - -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' - -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/s uname output: Linux DETH00 3.0.0-15-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 20 17:23:00 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Bash Version: 4.2 Patch Level: 10 Release Status: release Description: Basically if setting the locale fails variable should not be changed. Consider export LC_CTYPE= bash -c 'LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-1 eval printf "\${LC_CTYPE:-unset}"' bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (ISO-8859-1): No such file or directory ISO-8859-1 ksh93 -c 'LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-1 eval printf "\${LC_CTYPE:-unset}"' ISO-8859-1: unknown locale unset ksh93 -c 'LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 eval printf "\${LC_CTYPE:-unset}"' C.UTF-8 the advantage being you can check in the script if the local change worked. e.g. LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-1 [ "${LC_CTYPE:-}" = "ISO-8859-1" ] || error exit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPQ1sbAAoJEKUDtR0WmS05dDEH+wf+Gix7NnSZ6WvwOt6ZRmlv /BXr94coQ1I6ODCXXAG0ExgqNs81gJ58N1xw0nBO/qMpJ1CWv+t5Gc+FP37RK9GK aZbrT6yYAueg/lz58o7hg76oRKVmOpzaYxdquC4dMKa8K1kEdxNyyO4Qxa8a/TNP qLC79kvBl/23CESRomZdhUpOOjTdzhiEo6njLxDmluhzA+U/WsMD1Zp7TJih30gu okkJESAwSsEoo8QIeFbzOFa/qEZQH05SwY0CoYO+OPC0qlNR/Jar9cAJhTpHfxjg bLYXSNlqs5ZCgbmUCypnOWpOktUVPNxpXabNTjWPwAnekEY8Ms4BR6XkG+yuclk= =+Z4p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----