From: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 14:49:31 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: shell/env: Unset LANGUAGE.
X-Git-Url: https://ruderich.org/simon/gitweb/?p=config%2Fdotfiles.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=51075c34517cc53075b4249e985343486d476ce7

shell/env: Unset LANGUAGE.
---

diff --git a/crontab.d/update.sh b/crontab.d/update.sh
index 05519bb..062c34e 100755
--- a/crontab.d/update.sh
+++ b/crontab.d/update.sh
@@ -52,9 +52,8 @@ echo "###################################" >> "$CRONTAB"
 echo >> "$CRONTAB"
 echo "# It was generated from '$DIRECTORY/*' on `date -R`." >> "$CRONTAB"
 
-# Enforce C sort order ($LANGUAGE is a GNU extension).
+# Enforce C sort order.
 LC_ALL=C
-LANGUAGE=C
 
 NO_MATCHES=
 for file in "$DIRECTORY"/crontab.*; do
diff --git a/shell/env b/shell/env
index f11e687..2c81633 100644
--- a/shell/env
+++ b/shell/env
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ source_debug ". ~/.shell/env"
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 export LANG
 
+# Make sure $LANGUAGE is not set. It's a GNU extension which can overwrite
+# variables like $LANG or $LC_ALL.
+unset LANGUAGE
+
 # Add ~/bin and ~/.bin and ~/.shell/bin to PATH if available.
 if test -d "$HOME/.shell/bin"; then
     PATH="$HOME/.shell/bin:$PATH"