[luatex] annoying locale error

[Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute)]

On 10/11/2022 12:30, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> [...] But this /is/ a programming language, albeit a simplistic and
>> declarative one.  I don't know what its name is, but it is
>> presumably the programming language of one of the various
>> Unix-derived command-line interpreters ...
> Well, if you argue like that then almost all output emitted by UNIX
> command-line tools can be considered as a programming language...
>
> My point is: If Joe User calls the `locale` command on the shell
> prompt, he receives this output; he also has to handle such strings if
> he is going to modify his locale settings.

Ah, my misunderstanding — I thought that

> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF_8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
was stored in a[n executable] file somewhere — I failed to appreciate 
that it is simply the /output/ of a program.  In which case I withdraw 
my earlier comment unreservedly.

-- 
/** Phil./

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