Following up on shell(locale) problem

[Warren Samples]

On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 15:13 -0700, Mike Bonner wrote: 
> oh. If lc uses sh not bash, might need to parse whatever the default shell
> resource file is for the LANG string, at which point you could manually set
> it before calling locale. I don't recall if sh and bash are similar enough
> to eat the same file.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > If theres a .bashrc file, or .. well I forget what its name is supposed to
> > be, you might try
> >
> > shell("source path/to/my/.bashrc; locale -k LC_NUMERIC")
> >
> > Basically, find the file that bash loads, source it to force to be
> > processed, and then tack your command onto the end.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at mollysrevenge.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks Warren.  I just used the message box on my Mac and got the same
> >> (incorrect) output too.  It's good to know if works under Linux though
> >> because that makes me think it's an LC bug even more.
> >>
> >> I'm currently researching if there's a way to get this info using
> >> Applescript (without issuing a shell command I mean) as a means to work
> >> around the problem.
> >>
> >> Pete Haworth
> >>
> >> On Mar 1, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi Peter,
> >> >
> >> > Doing 'put shell("locale -k LC_NUMERIC")' in the message box returns the
> >> > same (expected) result for me here, running Linux, as I get in a
> >> > terminal. Same for putting the result into a field. I do get the same
> >> > unexpected behavior as you under OS X, however. I know this doesn't help
> >> > you solve you problem, but at may help isolate whatever bug it is that's
> >> > causing it.
> >> >
> >> > Good Luck,
> >> >
> >> > Warren
> >>
> >>

Hello,

"Which shell" doesn't seem to be the problem. 'locale' returns the same
result regardless of the shell it's called from. Tried it in 'csh',
'zsh', 'bash' and sh. 'sh' and '/bin/sh' seem to just be aliases for
bash under OS X, at any rate. Is that not correct?

Warren