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Re: environment variable for English version of error message
- From: Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org>
- To: Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld at dkuug dot dk>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 15:44:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: environment variable for English version of error message
Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> We were discussing error messages and bug reporting on the debian-i18n
> lists because some people were doing bug reports in their native
> language instead of English.
You can tell the user to set the environment variable LC_ALL to C before
running the program. Example:
$ env LC_ALL=C gnu-foobar
Bruno