Tom Lane wrote:
>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>
>
>>The attached patch against cvs tip does seem to work. Instead of playing
>>with the environment, we simply allow perl to do its worst and then put
>>things back the way we wanted them.
>>
>>
>
>Doesn't that screw up Perl, though? Its idea of what the locale is
>will be wrong.
>
>Maybe that's the least bad alternative available, but it doesn't seem
>like we're there yet.
>
>(Of course, the *big* problem with this approach is that it's
>Perl-specific, and won't do a thing for any other libraries that
>might try to do setlocale(LC_ALL, "").)
>
>
>
>
All true, which is why I tried to avoid this solution.
However, I have not found another one that works. Specifically,
unsetting LANG and LC_COLLATE did not work as I thought it would.
If anyone can provide a better solution I will be very happy.
cheers
andrew