How LANG environment variable is set?

Angelo Graziosi angelo.graziosi@alice.it
Thu Apr 24 22:45:00 GMT 2014


David Rothenberger wrote:
> It looks like /etc/profile sets LC_ALL=C before running the scripts
> in /etc/profile.d, then restores it to its original setting. This
> prevents LANG getting set by lang.sh.

The statement LC_ALL=C has been introduced in /et/profile with the 
recent upgrade of base-file 4.2 (and indeed I was sure with base-fle 4.1 
LANG was correctly set..)

So, is this how things should work or we have caught a bug in the new 
base-file 4.2 release?


Ciao,
Angelo.

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