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Title: purpose of LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
Post by: maqifrnswa on April 29, 2015, 02:58:09 pm

I just wanted to check the purpose of:
https://github.com/BitShares/bitshares/commit/b0efbee1b6d96f07b04788d9df85b7bd9161239d

Is it required for make, but not for regular use? Why is it required for make? thanks

Title: Re: purpose of LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
Post by: xeroc on April 29, 2015, 04:18:10 pm

I think this is optional and only required for 'strange' systems ..

Title: Re: purpose of LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
Post by: pc on April 29, 2015, 05:00:08 pm

It is required for building because the compiler (and other tools) must know how the source files are encoded.
I'd assume that most systems today have UTF-8 encoding configured per default, but it's better to be explicit there.

Title: Re: purpose of LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
Post by: xeroc on April 29, 2015, 07:17:33 pm

Quote from: pc on April 29, 2015, 05:00:08 pm

It is required for building because the compiler (and other tools) must know how the source files are encoded.
I'd assume that most systems today have UTF-8 encoding configured per default, but it's better to be explicit there.

Aha .. learn sth new every day .. thanks