Re: AUTHORS list and the C locale on Mac OS X

[James Mckenzie]

Charles Davis  wrote:
> On 11/9/10 12:13 PM, James Mckenzie wrote:
> > No, it is not a bug in GNU sed.  The authors.c file needs to have the erroneous characters for the language used by
> > MacOSX changed to be acceptable?
>
> That ain't gonna fly. I think we should explicitly use a UTF-8 locale
> (like en_US.UTF-8 or some such) instead of the C locale when sed goes
> over the AUTHORS file.

Don't shoot the messenger.  Maybe we can force the use of sed if it exists in the /usr/bin directory then to get around the 'brokenness' of GNU sed on the Mac?  If not, it is a real bear to set the language on a Mac per previous discussions on the Users list.

James McKenzie