How LANG environment variable is set?

Thu Apr 24 21:24:00 GMT 2014

On 04/24/2014 05:13 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> I remember that some time ago I had, in mintty,
>> $ echo $LANG
> it_IT.UTF-8
>> Now LANG is empty ('echo $LANG' prints nothing).
>> I notice that /etc/profile.d has lang.sh which should set LANG when I start
> mintty. That script contains
>> test -z "${LC_ALL:-${LC_CTYPE:-$LANG}}" && export LANG=$(/usr/bin/locale -uU)
>> and at command line, '/usr/bin/locale -uU' prints it_IT.UTF-8...
>>> If I start mintty (LANG empty) and the copy/paste the above lang.sh line,
> after an <ENTER> I get
>> $ echo $LANG
> it_IT.UTF-8
>> It is as if the script was not executed... or not? but surely I am missing
> something..

WJFFM. What's the shell you're running? Are you setting the local and/or
character set in mintty itself? Is '/etc/profile' or any of the other
profile scripts being run? Perhaps cygcheck output would help if you can't
find out where things are going awry.
-- 
Larry
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