From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:31:36 GMT
Subject: Re: problem with setlocale trick in gettext.c
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In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8A+YvdGc6LM5baFqHoB91p6TAjQ9kKXuaPspvL--mfe0Q@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> I think the setlocale() trick in init_gettext_charset() messes up
> locale support from library. Currently I get
>
> fatal: Could not switch to '/foo/': Kh?ng c? t?p tin ho?c th? m?c nh? v?y

That pretty much matches what the big comment before your patch
disables, doesn't it?  Could it be that newer/older libc differ
in the behaviour around this code?