Bug#1001202: about default locales LANGUAGE: set to C or unset

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2021-12-06, xiao sheng wen(肖盛文) wrote:
>       I suggestion set default locales LANGUAGE to C  or unset LANGUAGE env.
> At present, it set to en_US:en, this will cause some problems in no en env.
>
> The C LANGUAGE would be the default locales when set it.
> If no vary, not set LANG and LANGUAGE is also ok.

My understanding was that LANGUAGE, unlike LANG and LC_* is not valid as
"C", though I'm having a difficult time finding references for what are
valid settings for LANGUAGE.


live well,
  vagrant
  
> diff -u build.py atzlinux.build.py
> --- build.py    2021-12-06 18:07:33.653809577 +0800
> +++ atzlinux.build.py   2021-12-06 18:12:17.407143396 +0800
> @@ -365,7 +365,7 @@
>  # list question.
>  def locales(ctx, build, vary):
>      if not vary:
> -        return build.add_env('LANG', 'C.UTF-8').add_env('LANGUAGE',
> 'en_US:en')
> +        return build.add_env('LANG', 'C.UTF-8').add_env('LANGUAGE', 'C')
>      else:
>          # if there is an issue with this being random, we could instead select
> it
>          # based on a deterministic hash of the inputs
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