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From: Emil Jerabek
Subject: compiling-update
Date: 27 Jan 2005, 13:30:53

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:56:06PM +0100, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
[...]
> 
> If we then move the C program to a separate file, the shell won't
> have to deal with those characters. E.g., put it in fjf165a.c and
> put this in the script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> # Try setting German locale (locally ;-)
> #
> # Which variables do we really need to set? (Probably not all of
> # these, but better be safe than sorry. ;-)
> #
> # The complicated redirecting is necessary on Solaris' shell which
> # otherwise would give messages "couldn't set locale correctly"
> # in the variable assignments that can't seem to be redirected
> # normally.
> 
> exec 3>&2 2> /dev/null
> LC_ALL=de_DE; export LC_ALL
> LC_CTYPE=de_DE; export LC_CTYPE
> LANG=de_DE; export LANG
> exec 2>&3
> 
> # Test if German locale actually works (i.e., whether the locale
> # database is installed on the system)
> if gcc "`dirname "$2"`"/fjf165a.c > /dev/null 2>&1 && [ -r "$A_OUT" ] &&
>    [ x"`./"$A_OUT" 2> /dev/null`" = x"1" ]; then
>   rm -f "$A_OUT"
>   $1 $2
>   if [ -r "$A_OUT" ] ; then
>     ./"$A_OUT"
>   else
>     echo "failed"
>   fi
> else
>   echo "SKIPPED: German locale not installed"
> fi
> 

Since the test does not actually test anything German specific, but
rather handling of Latin 1 characters, it would be a good idea to
specifically request this charset in the locale settings, i.e.:

LC_ALL=de_DE.iso-8859-1; export LC_ALL

and so on.

Emil

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