From 2897b231a6b71ee17d47d3d63f1112b2641a476c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruno Haible Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 15:31:36 +0200 Subject: intl: Treat C.UTF-8 locale like C locale (BZ# 16621) The wiki page https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Proposals/C.UTF-8 says that "Setting LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 will ignore LANGUAGE just like it does with LC_ALL=C." This patch implements it. * intl/dcigettext.c (guess_category_value): Treat C. locale like the C locale. Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer --- intl/dcigettext.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file 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.", because that's + the by-design behaviour for glibc, see + . */ + if (locale[0] == 'C' && (locale[1] == '\0' || locale[1] == '.')) return locale; /* The highest priority value is the value of the 'LANGUAGE' environment -- cgit 1.4.1