Re: pkg_alternatives, Darwin and locale

[Louis Guillaume <lguillaume%berklee.edu@localhost>]

Christian Biere wrote:

> What is Apple supposed to fix? History?

Well, try as they may, I fear they cannot do that :)

But maybe they can fix their system so that tr and sed work in en_US 
locales....

$ export LC_ALL=en_US
$ printf "\254\n" | tr -d '\254'
tr: Illegal byte sequence
$ printf "\254\n" | sed 's/.//g'
¬
$ export LC_ALL=C
$ printf "\254\n" | tr -d '\254'

$ printf "\254\n" | sed 's/.//g'

$



By the way, this is only a problem in Leopard, from what I can tell. I 
tried on Tiger and everything works "normally".

Louis