grub/grub-mkconfig export LANG=C

[Carles Pina i Estany]

Hello,

Doing some testing with gettext patch I see that grub-mkconfig is
(usually) overriding LANG variable to LANG=c

Actually there is some relevant parts:
----------
# XXX: should this be deprecated at some point?
if [ "x${GRUB_TERMINAL}" != "x" ] ; then
  GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT="${GRUB_TERMINAL}"
  GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="${GRUB_TERMINAL}"
fi

echo "x${grub_prefix}/gfxterm.mod"
case x${GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT} in
  x)
    # If this platform supports gfxterm, try to use it.
    if test -e ${grub_prefix}/gfxterm.mod ; then
      GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=gfxterm
    fi
  ;;
  xconsole | xserial | xofconsole | xgfxterm) ;;
  *) echo "Invalid output terminal \"${GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT}\"" >&2 ; exit 1 ;;
esac

...

# does our terminal support utf-8 ?
case ${GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT} in
  gfxterm) ;;
  *)
    # make sure all our children behave in conformance with ascii..
    export LANG=C
  ;;
esac
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Since it starts saying that maybe it's deprecated, do you think that now it's
time to redo this part using another way? I think that, last months, has been
some changes or patches about terminal output and I don't know if there is
something pending in grub-mkconfig.

Thanks,

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