On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 06:21:55PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
>
> I don't understand the reasons but the conclusion seems to be that we
> have to use this round-about way of setting the locale, which we've
> come to after some amount of trial and error.
I tested something similar in Perl on OpenBSD 7.8, and it does not work.
With LC_MESSAGES it did not work at all, with LC_CTYPE the switch to the
locale happens, but there is no translation. Here is the code I tested
(at the beginning of _switch_messages_locale:
if (defined($working_locale)) {
$ENV{'LC_ALL'} = $working_locale;
$ENV{'LANG'} = $working_locale;
$locale = POSIX::setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "");
$locale = POSIX::setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
}
if (!defined($locale)) {
$ENV{'LC_ALL'} = "en_US.UTF-8";
$ENV{'LANG'} = "en_US.UTF-8";
$locale = POSIX::setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "");
$locale = POSIX::setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
}
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Pat
