Re: Possible bug to report (loss of data)

[Tony Theodore <tonyt@logyst.com>]

On 6 July 2011 14:47, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Tony Theodore <tonyt@logyst.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>  I suspect this error is an environment variable issue - check the
>> output of "locale" and maybe try something like:
>>
>> LC_ALL="xx_XX.UTF-8" tarsnap -c -f ...
>
> You don't really mean xx_XX do you?  What is expected in place of
> those x's?

Maybe something other than the output of locale:

$ locale
LANG="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

or LC_ALL="C" is possibly a fail-safe choice.

Cheers,

Tony