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| -rw-r--r-- | intl/dcigettext.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/intl/dcigettext.c b/intl/dcigettext.c index 7886ac9545..27063886d2 100644 --- a/intl/dcigettext.c +++ b/intl/dcigettext.c @@ -1560,8 +1560,12 @@ guess_category_value (int category, const char *categoryname) 2. The precise output of some programs in the "C" locale is specified by POSIX and should not depend on environment variables like "LANGUAGE" or system-dependent information. We allow such programs - to use gettext(). */ - if (strcmp (locale, "C") == 0) + to use gettext(). + Ignore LANGUAGE and its system-dependent analogon also if the locale is + set to "C.UTF-8" or, more generally, to "C.<encoding>", because that's + the by-design behaviour for glibc, see + <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Proposals/C.UTF-8>. */ + if (locale[0] == 'C' && (locale[1] == '\0' || locale[1] == '.')) return locale; /* The highest priority value is the value of the 'LANGUAGE' environment |