Re: macOS 12 - cannot override LC_ALL=C setting from environment

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 02:41:43AM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Gavin and Patrice,
> 
> > I got it down to a short C program:
> > 
> 
> The reason why it does not work is that this program is not following
> the documented requirement from
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/C.html :
>   "Programmer must call setlocale (LC_ALL, "")"
> 
> In other words, instead of doing
>   setlocale (LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8");
> you need to do
>   setenv ("LC_ALL", "en_US.UTF-8", 1);
>   setlocale (LC_ALL, "");

I did some testing on macos, the following works too:
  setenv ("LC_ALL", "en_US.UTF-8", 1);
  setlocale (LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8");

It did not work with LC_MESSAGES only seems like it needs to be LC_ALL.

Thanks!

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Pat