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Add LANGUAGE env var to default pass list #431

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ulope opened this issue Dec 29, 2016 · 9 comments
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Add LANGUAGE env var to default pass list #431

ulope opened this issue Dec 29, 2016 · 9 comments

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@ulope
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ulope commented Dec 29, 2016

Since tox 2.0.2 LANG is automatically passed to avoid Unicode(En|De)codeErrors. I've just now encountered a system (macOS) where LANGUAGE was used instead of LANG, again causing test breakage.

I would suggest to add LANGUAGE to the list of default pass variables.

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Thanks for the report @ulope. Is that maybe a special configuration? I don't have a Mac here atm, but AFAIK mac uses the same LANG env vars like other UNIXES and Linux. Are there some official docs about this?

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ulope commented Dec 29, 2016

Yeah I hadn't seen it before either.
According to man 7 locale it applies to LC_MESSAGES.

It does affect Python's string handling however so I still think it would make sense to add it to the default "pass" list.

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pawelad commented Feb 26, 2017

Is anyone working on this feature?

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Not that I know of. Go for it :)

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pawelad commented Mar 8, 2017

Should LANGUAGE be always allowed on both Unix and OS X or only on OS X?

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AFAIK it's not used on Debian based systems. I'm on Arch Linux and there is also no LANGUAGE, so I would tend to say it's a Mac specific adjustment. It would be great if you could do some additional research about this before proposing an implementation.

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ulope commented Mar 9, 2017

It appears to be a standard feature: https://linux.die.net/man/7/locale (see section on LC_MESSAGES)

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pawelad commented Mar 18, 2017

It's not set on my OS X or my Ubuntu 16.04 but it is in the locale manual so I think it should be safe to add it.

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pawelad commented Mar 18, 2017

Pull request: #486

obestwalter added a commit that referenced this issue Mar 25, 2017
Add 'LANGUAGE' to default passed environment variables (#431)
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