Possible bug?

[Ulf Wiger]

Per Hedeland wrote:
> 
> PS Other things (outside Erlang) may "break" in particular if you set
> LANG, e.g. floating point numbers, dates, error messages, etc may start
> to get printed in funny ways that the standardization bodies think you
> want - I guess some would call this a "feature" - oh well...:-)

You should be able to avoid that by setting the desired environment
variable in Erlang only:

gandalf 10> erl -boot start_clean 
Erlang (JAM) emulator version 4.7.3.4
 
Eshell V4.7.3.4  (abort with ^G)
1> a:a().
"\345\344\366"



gandalf 11> erl -boot start_clean -env LANG sv
Erlang (JAM) emulator version 4.7.3.4
 
Eshell V4.7.3.4  (abort with ^G)
1> a:a().
"åäö"


(There is also an Erlang function, os:getenv(Var), which returns the
value of an OS environment variable.)

/Uffe

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