Re: Invalid shell assignments in environment

[Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@xxxxxxxx>]

> <<On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:55:46 -0400, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@xxxxxx> said:
> 
> >> One question though, are we talking about a portable character set for
> >> variable names, variable values, or both?   Don't know if there's a need to
> >> ensure the portability of values but I see a substantial value in
> >> standardizing the character set for variable names, to ASCII ideally.
> 
> > Variable names.
> 
> Hmmm.  In what character set is the value of the LANG and LC_*
> environment variables?

From my perspective, it doesn't matter.  Values aren't restricted in general,
and as a practical matter, it's whatever setlocale() accepts.

Chet

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