Command line arguments depend on locale

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:05:16AM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> This makes it difficult to call system commands. The only workaround is
> to set LC_ALL to a known-good locale, but then your users get no benefit
> from the translations of error messages and so on.

You should *always* set LC_ALL=C when running an external command from
another program (and most probably from a shell script too).

Rich.

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