"Brian C. Lane" <b...@redhat.com> skribis:
> See my patch here:
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2014-July/004568.html
-export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
+if [ -e "/usr/share/locale/en_US/" ]; then
+ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+else
+ export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
+fi
The problem is that this directory is not necessarily where locale data
resides.
One way to check whether the locale encoding is supported would be
with ‘wc -m’:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ printf 'foo\341\264\244'|LC_ALL=C wc -m
6
$ printf 'foo\341\264\244'|LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 wc -m
4
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
The test could look for a valid UTF-8 locale like this:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
found_locale=no
for locale in en_US de_DE fr_FR es_ES
do
LC_ALL="$locale.utf8"
# In a UTF-8 locale, the string below prints as 4 characters.
if [ `printf 'foo\341\264\244' | wc -m` -eq 4 ]; then
found_locale=yes
break
fi
done
if [ "$found_locale" != "yes" ]; then
echo "no valid UTF-8 locale found; skipping" >&2
exit 77
fi
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
