'LANG=' produces German output

[Richard L. Hamilton]

I would suppose that without a valid locale LANG or the LC_* variables, there would be some other default - that it's not randomly picking a locale.

On a  "normal" Unix/Linux system, I would expect  "C" locale (or perhaps a system setting) to be that default. But Macs are a bit odd; their native apps get some defaults from system preference settings. What are your language and region settings there?


> On Feb 13, 2020, at 03:50, Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org> wrote:
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> [macports-ports 83eb0fba14b88745b29c0efa5d29aa73ee69c04b from 2020-02-12]
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> Folks,
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> on my Lion box, calling
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>  LANG= bison ...
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> I suddenly get *German* output!  Ditto for other programs like 'info',
> 'ggrep', etc., that come with '.po' files.  Is this normal?  Is this a
> new gettext feature?
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>    Werner
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