Re: grub/grub-mkconfig export LANG=C

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 03:23:57PM +0100, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> case ${GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT} in
>   gfxterm) ;;
>   *)
>     # make sure all our children behave in conformance with ascii..
>     export LANG=C
>   ;;
> esac
> ----------
> 
> Since it starts saying that maybe it's deprecated, do you think that now it's
> time to redo this part using another way?

Would be nice, but we can only do this when we start using unicode fonts by
default.  Otherwise the default setup would include lots of '?' characters.

(about switching to unicode fonts, see the mail I just sent about slowness)

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