Following up on shell(locale) problem

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Francois.  I don;t think that's the problem though.  If I use the LC shell command to execute the locale command and put it's output into a file, the contents of the file are correct.  BUt then if I open the file in LC and put the contents into a field, it's garbled again.

I wonder if there are some strange hidden characters in the output that are confusing LC? 

Pete Haworth

On Mar 1, 2011, at 1:36 PM, François Chaplais wrote:

> the LC shell command launches a shell which not the same as the one in Terminal. I am unfortunately not a Unix guru, but I know this has consequences on some "default" options, even if you use the same variant of the shell (BASH, I believe).
> Le 1 mars 2011 à 22:00, Peter Haworth a écrit :
> 
>> Hoping someone might come up with some help.  To recap, if I execute the command
>> 
>> locale -k LC_NUMERIC
>> 
>> ...from Terminal on my Mac, the output is
>> 
>> decimal_point="."
>> thousands_sep=","
>> grouping="3;3"
>> 
>> However, if I use the LC Shell command to issue the same command and put the output into a field, it gives me:
>> 
>> decimal_point="."
>> thousands_sep=
>> grouping="0"
>> 
>> The thousands_sep and grouping lines don't show the correct info.
>> 
>> I have also tried using the shell command to issue "locale -k LC_NUMERIC > myFile.txt", then accessed myFile.txt with the put url command and used open/read to get the contents, but still the same result. The file looks fine when opened in TextEdit.  I can even copy and paste from TextEdit to the LC field and it looks fine.
>> 
>> I'm really hoping not, but this is feeling like a bug.
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> 
>> Pete Haworth
>> 
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