[GRASS-dev] more on locale problem - workaround success!

[William Kyngesburye]

On Jul 28, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Michael Barton wrote:

> So by default, my LANG is set but none of the other locale variables are set. For Carlos, LC_CTYPE is set (incorrectly??) and nothing else (including LANG) is set.
> Neither one of us have explicitly set any of these locale variables prior to hitting this issue. Since another Spanish colleague (Agustin) also reported problems, I wonder if this is something that is "normal" for Spanish-enabled Macs. 

Note that LANG is set automatically by Terminal.app if the Advanced preference "Set locale environment variables on startup" is checked.  But, of course, this is useless if the system sets LC_CTYPE somewhere.

I have doubts that it is something specific to Spanish or other non-English systems.  Others that have reported this in the past have had problems on English systems and some non-English system users have not had the problem.

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