[Haskell-cafe] setting ISO-8859-1 encoding on Raspbian for GHC

[Donn Cave]

quoth Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane at dukhovni.org>
...
> Or better yet, "unset LC_ALL", no point it having an empty setting.
> On a Fedora 31 system, locale(7) states:
> 
>    If the second argument to setlocale(3) is an empty string, "", for
>    the default locale, it is determined using the following steps:
> 
>    1. If there is a non-null environment variable LC_ALL, the value of
>    LC_ALL is used.
> 
>    2. If an environment variable with the same name as one of the
>    categories above exists and is non-null, its value is used for that
>    category.
> 
>    3. If there is a non-null environment variable LANG, the value of
>    LANG is used.
> 
> Where by "non-null", the author must have meant non-empty, since the
> value of an environment variable (that has a value) cannot be NULL, but
> it can be empty.

Yes, that's what null means in this context - zero length.

I would think the main question is whether other applications are
going to be affected by a change to LC_ALL.  If that's in doubt,
it may be more convenient to apply this as he has done in his
examples, on the command line.

	Donn