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Re: Base-Files (was Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile?)


On Dec  2 18:21, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote in another thread about setting LANG:
> >>... Andy and Thomas, please work
> >>out the best solution together.  It should work in sh and csh.  Then
> >>post it as reply to http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-12/msg00090.html so
> >>John can put it into the base-files package.
> Our worked-out proposal is as follows:
> 
> 
> /etc/profile.d/lang.sh:
> 
> # if no locale variable is set, indicate terminal charset via LANG
> test -z "${LC_ALL:-${LC_CTYPE:-$LANG}}" && export LANG=C.UTF-8
> 
> /etc/profile.d/lang.csh:
> 
> # if no locale variable is set, indicate terminal charset via LANG
> ( test $?LC_ALL = 0 || test -z "$LC_ALL" ) && ( test $?LC_CTYPE = 0 || test -z "$LC_CTYPE" ) && ( test $?LANG = 0 || test -z "$LANG" ) && setenv LANG C.UTF-8

Thanks to both of you.

> where the details of how lang.sh or lang.csh, resp., are invoked,
> are up to you.

All scripts in /etc/profile.d are called from /etc/profile (*.sh
scripts) and /etc/csh.cshrc (*.csh) respectively.


Corinna

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