[bug #46846] failure due to filename encoding and locale on OSX

[Clarence Risher]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46846>

                 Summary: failure due to filename encoding and locale on OSX
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: sparr
            Submitted on: Thu 07 Jan 2016 10:22:30 PM GMT
                Category: updatedb
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.4.2
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

I've installed updatedb via Homebrew and encountered this problem:

$ sudo updatedb
/usr/bin/sort: string comparison failed: Illegal byte sequence
/usr/bin/sort: Set LC_ALL='C' to work around the problem.
/usr/bin/sort: The strings compared were
`/LIBRARY/FONTS/ō\216Ɩ\207ǻ\206ɻ\221.TTF' and
`/LIBRARY/FONTS/ō\216Ɩ\207ɻ\221Ľ\223.TTF'.

here are some possibly valid environment settings:

$ locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
$ env | egrep '^(LANG=|LC_)' | sort
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

downstream report: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/47791

my temporary workaround is to just `export LC_ALL="C"` at the top of the
updatedb script




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