From: Iain Patterson <me@iain.cx>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:52:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Handle locale a bit (but not much) more sensibly.
X-Git-Url: http://git.iain.cx/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d971afe79263574329b54a4e63ab1d996d24ce9f;p=profile.git

Handle locale a bit (but not much) more sensibly.


git-svn-id: https://svn.cambridge.iain.cx/profile/trunk@178 6be0d1a5-5cfe-0310-89b6-964be062b18b
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diff --git a/.profile.d/locale.bashrc b/.profile.d/locale.bashrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fdf0fd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.profile.d/locale.bashrc
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# $Id$
+
+unset LANG LC_ALL
+
+for locale in en_GB.UTF-8 en_GB; do
+  if locale -a 2>/dev/null | grep "^$locale\$" >/dev/null; then
+    export LC_CTYPE=$locale
+    break
+  fi
+done
+
+unset locale
diff --git a/.profile.d/variables.bashrc b/.profile.d/variables.bashrc
index 774cddb..8fa34ab 100644
--- a/.profile.d/variables.bashrc
+++ b/.profile.d/variables.bashrc
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ export SSHTERM=urxvtc
 export SSHTERM_TITLE=-title
 export SSHTERM_EXEC=-e
 unset LANG
-export LC_CTYPE=en_GB
 if ls --help 2>/dev/null | grep gnu.org >/dev/null; then
   export LS_OPTIONS="--color=auto -F -b --time-style=long-iso"
 elif [ "$SYSTEM" = "Darwin" ]; then