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

[Thomas Wolff]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 07:21:40PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> I wasn't paying attention before, so I apologize for not commenting
> sooner but couldn't all of the above be one test statement or at least
> handled inside '{}' rather than '()'.  Maybe bash optimizes that away
> but, if it doesn't, then forking subshells will be rather expensive on
> Cygwin.
>   
For bash and other sh-alike shells, test is a built-in, but not for tcsh 
- sorry I did not consider this.
So an if statement should be used. I don't see, however, how {} would 
help - if you mean to embed an invocation of test
in an if expression, that doesn't help because test would still be forked.
The expression if ( $?LC_ALL == 0 || "$LC_ALL" == "" ) on the other 
doesn't work if LC_ALL is undefined because
|| inside an expression is not a conditional or, at least not with 
respect to variable substitution.
So I propose to neglect the unlikely possibility of an empty variable 
setting here and just test whether any of them is defined:

if ( $?LC_ALL == 0 && $?LC_CTYPE == 0 && $?LANG == 0 ) setenv LANG C.UTF-8

Thomas

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