Re: svnversion locale error LANG LC_ALL

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Russell E Glaue wrote:

> Okay here is one to be documented in this mail list archive.
>
> Regarding Subversion 1.1.0
>
> svnversion: error: cannot set LC_ALL locale
> svnversion: error: environment variable LANG is en_US
> svnversion: error: please check that your locale name is correct
>
> You will get this error if you have the LANG environment variable set to
> some string, like "en_US".
>
> Particularily if you are compiling on Mac OS X 10.2.8 which apparently
> has LANG set to "en_US" by default when you begin a terminal shell session.

Are you sure you have your locale set up correctly. Subversion checks the
return value of setlocale, which many other programs don't. I don't know
how OS X handles locales. I've successfully used svnversion with
LANG=sv_SE on Linux.

Thanks,
//Peter

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Received on Thu Oct 7 21:20:00 2004