[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #544: v.info lacks -g switch

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#544: v.info lacks -g switch
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 Reporter:  neteler  |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  major    |   Milestone:  6.4.0                    
Component:  Vector   |     Version:  svn-develbranch6         
 Keywords:           |    Platform:  All                      
      Cpu:  All      |  
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 Problem: the absence of the -g flag breaks some scripts which use v.info
 in a non-English locale. The -t flag is not sufficient. Details:

 http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2009-April/049690.html

 On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:
 > The problem is that v.info doesn't have an option to produce
 > machine-readable output. The -t switch doesn't cover all of the
 > information which v.info can output.
 >
 > FWIW, v.report has:

 {{{
 COLNAMES="`v.info -c map=$MAP layer=$LAYER | grep -v '^Displaying column
 type' | ...
 }}}

 > But the 'Displaying column type' message is localised.
 >
 > v.report uses LC_ALL=C, which solves the above issue but is a bug in
 > and of itself.
 >
 > The comment says:

 {{{
 # setting environment, so that sort works properly in all languages
 LC_ALL=C         # according to 'man sort'
 }}}

 > If it's just for sorting, it should be setting LC_CTYPE (but LC_ALL
 > has to be unset, which means that the other LC_* variables have to be
 > set to $LC_ALL first).
 >
 > But every occurence of "sort" in that script uses -n, which shouldn't
 > be affected by locale.

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