bug#19251: 24.4; LANG not applied in shell command

[Ivan Shmakov]

tags  19251 + notabug
close 19251
thanks

>>>>> Sebastien Vauban writes:
>>>>> Ivan Shmakov wrote:

[…]

 >> My suggestion would be to use LC_ALL=C instead of a LANG override.

 > I first tried LC_ALL=en_US.  No success.

 > Your suggestion LC_ALL=C did work.  Thanks!

        Setting LC_ALL to en_US requests that specific locale, which may
        or may not be available on the target system.  (E. g., per [1].)
        On the contrary, LC_ALL=C effectively requests any localizations
        to be disabled.

[1] 
http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?format=html&manpath=testing&sektion=5&query=locale.gen

 > (This can be closed – and Emacs did the right thing btw)

        ACK; closing as ‘notabug’.

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