Re: [bug-gawk] Using ENVIRON["LANG"] = "C" instead of --characters-as-bytes

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 01:48:53 -0600
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> I also don't think that it's a good idea to do so; changing locale in
> the middle of a run seems to me to be a pretty bad idea. It's likely
> to have all kinds of unintended side effects, and I thinks it's one of
> those dragon-infested places on the map where it's better to stay away
> from.

It's not unreasonable, IMO, to do that once in the BEGIN block.  That
would be the equivalent of running a shell command as in

  LC_ALL=WHATEVER <program>