Re: Invalid shell assignments in environment

["Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Geoff Clare wrote:

> The shell should complain about the variable name.  Quoting from
> my first mail in this thread:
>
> | There is a formal definition for "name" in this context:
> | 
> |     3.230 Name
> |     In the shell command language, a word consisting solely of
> |     underscores, digits, and alphabetics from the portable character
> |     set. The first character of a name is not a digit.
>
> Note the phrase "from the portable character set".  Thus u-umlaut
> is not a valid character in shell variable names.
"from the portable character set", but in which locale?

After exec* a program is in the "C" locale, so the environment
variables should be converted into to portable character set of
"C" locale?

ciao
	cate