Re: [PATCH] announce-gen: Improve GnuPG verification instructions.

[Bruno Haible]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> +  my $gpg_fingerprint = `LANG=C gpg --fingerprint $gpg_key_id | grep -v 
> ^sub`;

LANG=C has no effect if LC_ALL is set, since LC_ALL has a higher precedence than
LANG [1].

[1] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Locale-Environment-Variables.html


2022-07-10  Bruno Haible  <br...@clisp.org>

        announce-gen: Fix internationalization in verification instructions.
        * build-aux/announce-gen: Set LC_ALL, not LANG, to "C", to force English
        output from gpg.

diff --git a/build-aux/announce-gen b/build-aux/announce-gen
index 320cf4b0d6..3847a568d2 100755
--- a/build-aux/announce-gen
+++ b/build-aux/announce-gen
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like 
this:
   gpg --verify $tarballs[0].sig
 
 EOF
-  my $gpg_fingerprint = `LANG=C gpg --fingerprint $gpg_key_id | grep -v ^sub`;
+  my $gpg_fingerprint = `LC_ALL=C gpg --fingerprint $gpg_key_id | grep -v 
^sub`;
   if ($gpg_fingerprint =~ /^pub/)
     {
       chop $gpg_fingerprint;