[Buildroot] Unicode problem with check-uniq-files

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Jaap, All,

On 2018-03-22 11:43 +0100, Jaap Crezee spake thusly:
> On 03/21/18 22:44, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > If you change your LC_ALL et al to an UTF-8 locale, it will work again,
> > I believe.
> 
> That is not working for me:
> 
> /bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (UTF-8)

"UTF-8" by itself is not a valid locale definition. A valid locale is
made of three firelds:

  ll_CC[.encoding]

with:

  ll: the ISO 639-1 2-letter language name, e.g. fr, en, cs...

  CC: the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 2letter country code, e.g. FR, CA, UK, US,
      CS...

  encoding: a relatively-free-form field that defines the character set
      encoding. In practice, only UTF-8 is ever used AFAICS...

E.g.:

  fr_FR.UTF-8    french, in France, UTF-8 charset
  fr_CA.UTF-8    french, in Canada (Quebec), UTF-8 charset
  en_GB.UTF-8    english, Great Britain, UTF-8 charset

Locale can define a large set of representations:

  - number: decimal separator, currency symbol position, negative
    symbol and its position...

  - address: separator between number and streetname, ZIP code...

  - collation, i.e. ordering rules, like uppercase vs. lowercase...

and a sh!tload other stuff, see:  man 7 locale

> >>>   Finalizing target directory
> # Check files that are touched by more than one package
> /bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (UTF-8)

See what locales are available on your system:

    locale -a

Then use one of those, e.g.:

    LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 ./support/scripts/check-uniq-files -t target \
    /data/work/jcz/git/jidiot/clients/innr/buildroot_development/output/build/packages-file-list.txt

> BTW my LANG is set to "C".

That's OK. ;-) I had been using POSIX for years before I decided to
enter the 3rd millenai, and switched to a mix of en_GB.UTF-8 and
fr_FR.UTF-8 a few years ago...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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