Bug 103499 – lang. selection of man based on env. variable is not POSIX-compliant

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Bug 103499 - lang. selection of man based on env. variable is not POSIX-compliant

Summary:	lang. selection of man based on env. variable is not POSIX-compliant

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	man (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Eido Inoue
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Reported:	2003-09-01 04:44 EDT by Jungshik Shin
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:57 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version:	1.5m2-1
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Last Closed:	2004-01-26 19:47:05 EST
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Description Jungshik Shin 2003-09-01 04:44:45 EDT

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701

Description of problem:
To determine the language of a man page to show, man should refer to
LC_ALL,LC_MESSAGES and LANG in turn. However, currently, it ignores LC_ALL and
LC_MESSAGES but always refers to LANG. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
man-1.5k-6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.set LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 and LANG to fr_FR.UTF-8
2.try 'man command'
3.
    

Actual Results:  French man page is displayed

Expected Results:  English man page is expected.


Additional info:

POSIX /Single Unix Spec is very clear that LANG has the lowest precedence when
determining the locale while LC_ALL has the highest with LC_* (other than ALL)
taking the place between LANG and LC_ALL. 

'man' should follow that. I may have reported this to the upstream maintainer(or
may not have).

Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2004-01-26 19:47:05 EST

fixed in 1.5m2-1

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