Re: How to make locale settings more robust

[Bruno Haible]

Thanks for jumping in, Miguel.

Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas wrote:
> Usually this is enough:
> 
>   unset LC_ALL
>   LANGUAGE="<locale>" <program> <args>...

Note: This does not work in all circumstances. More precisely, if the first
of the two environment values $LANG, $LC_MESSAGES that is non-empty is
'C' or 'POSIX', or if none of the values $LANG, $LC_MESSAGES is non-empty,
LANGUAGE has no effect.

Bruno

[2] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/The-LANGUAGE-variable.html