omega8cc/boa — pull request #448 by ar-jan (2014-10-07 01:18:08+00:00)
Title: Improve locales (follow-up)

Follow-up to #447.

- On systems with undefined locales, explicitly define all LC_ settings as en_US.UTF-8
- On systems with using UTF-8 locales and no undefined locale problems, still explicitly define LC_ settings required for consistency.
See http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/149129/20865 for more background.
LC_CTYPE: although UTF-8 encoding is the most important aspect, and this was already checked for, enforcing en_US.UTF-8 is even safer.
LC_COLLATE=POSIX for consistent results in grep etc.
LC_NUMERIC=POSIX: number formatting: decimal and thousands separator - maybe not directly relevant to BOA scripts, but now that we're touching this better to choose safe settings.
- On systems with _LOCALE_TEST not broken, still set the same important LC_ settings on the fly, to cover initial installation as well.

- I moved the update-locale command outside the Debian/Ubuntu-specific sections (since it's much longer now)
- Formatted with separate lines for readability

Happy to hear your comments/questions/suggestions.

By the way, should I generally submit pull requests to master or to the then-current -dev branch?