Re: Invalid shell assignments in environment

[Geoff Clare <gwc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glenn Fowler <gsf@research.att.com> wrote, on 02 Jul 2009:
> 
> assume that the parent process supports UTF-8 chars in the environment
> 
> should a child sh of the parent process, child in the C locale,
> be able to prevent a grandchild process, grandchild in a UTF-8 locale,
> from seeing those UTF-8 environment variables?

Yes, since that is long-standing existing practice in some shells.

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