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[Ceri Davies]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 03:35:09PM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 02:17:51PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > > It's maybe time to add in committers doc the need to use
> > > LC_ALL=C cvs ci, LC_ALL=C edit-pr etc. if they have custom localization.
> > > 
> > > (Well I was on the way to add it 1 year ago but... :) )
> > 
> > The better option is to to enforce it in /usr/local/bin/edit-pr, which
> > can easily be done.  I already approached admins@ about this a long time
> > ago, but I'm not familiar enough with locales to know exactly what
> > effect this would have on people who do use them.
> > 
> > How much would it freak you out to lose your locale setting within vi
> > with no warning, for instance?  If the answer is "not much", then we'll
> > just go ahead and do it.
> 
> No one needs "localization" when it's time to use edit-pr or other
> repository access tool :)

OK, I've requested that admins apply the attached patch to edit-pr on
freefall, which should prevent reoccurrence of this in the future.

Ceri

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--- edit-pr.orig	Sat Feb 21 10:25:41 2004
+++ edit-pr	Sat Feb 21 10:26:14 2004
@@ -20,5 +20,6 @@
 # the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
 
 LIBEXECDIR=/usr/local/libexec
+LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL
 
 exec $LIBEXECDIR/gnats/gnats-edit-pr --mode=local ${1+"$@"}
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