From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:24:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i18n: disable i18n for shell scripts if NO_GETTEXT defined
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:17, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> So we need "MY_GETTEXT_IS_BROKEN" to decline the use of system gettext
> in addition to "NO_GETTEXT" to ask Git not to translate the messages. Is
> that correct?

I think yes.

> If that is the case, should we do something like
>
>        LANG=C LC_ALL=C
>        export LANG LC_ALL
>
> in our shell scripts, when building for NO_GETTEXT target?

Just for the record: gettext here stays broken with LANG and LC_ALL set to C.
But the locale-dependent formatting in C functions will change. Wont be a
problem here, though. The named formatting is broken, too: strftime, for
instance, always formats in C locale.