'LANG=' produces German output

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 13, 2020, at 08:40, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

>>> on my Lion box, calling
>>> 
>>> LANG= bison ...
>>> 
>>> 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?
> 
>> 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?
> 
> It's seems to be a new feature of gettext 0.21, which comes with
> improved MacOS support.  In the NEWS file I read

Then you should not be seeing this problem with MacPorts since we still use gettext 0.19.8.1.

If you would like to read about why we have not updated or to help us to do so, see:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58526