Re: Bug#250488: LANGUAGE should be allowed to work even under C locale (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Bill Allombert wrote:

> > > For that purpose I use the following snippet from
> > > info gettext "Being a `gettext' grok":
> > >
> > >             /* Change language.  */
> > >             setenv ("LANGUAGE", lang, 1);
> > >
> > > It works quite well unless the locale is set to C ...
> > 
> > Then I'd suggest that you set the locale to en_US.UTF-8 (and install
> > that locale, of course).
> 
> There is no warranty any locale is compiled and I cannot change that
> unfortunately.

Yes, you can. It is probably not well documented, but you can.

The fact that it is not very well documented is already reported
in Bug#114461. Please read it.

I'm closing this report again. The author do not consider this as a bug,
and neither do I. If you fiddle with this report again I will consider
it BTS abuse.