bug#19251: 24.4; LANG not applied in shell command

[Sebastien Vauban]

Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>> Sebastien Vauban writes:
>
>> This is because my function looks for the string "Already up-to-date"
>> in Git's output, and his output is in French – while I forced LANG to
>> en_US.
>>
>> So, why is LANG not respected in `shell-command-to-string'?
>
> The LC_ALL environment variable takes precedence over LANG (or
> any other LC_ variables, for that matter.)  Back a decade ago,
> I’ve seen RedHat-derived distributions using LC_ALL (instead of
> LANG) to set the locale, so that could be the issue.
>
> My suggestion would be to use LC_ALL=C instead of a LANG
> override.

I first tried LC_ALL=en_US. No success.

Your suggestion LC_ALL=C did work. Thanks!

(This can be closed -- and Emacs did the right thing btw)

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban