Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Binary Diff System in Arch

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 08:59:18AM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> * tla binary file detection
> 
>   tla trusts diff to detect binary files.  It uses a crude
>   technique: looking for the the string "binary files" at the 
>   start of diff output.   Strangely enough, this seems to work
>   regardless of how a users locale is set.

That's odd, because it shouldn't. That message is i18ned, and l10ned
in most of the po files I have here - and if I trivially test it, I
get an l10ned message. Why it works for tla is a mystery that really
should be investigated.

tla should probably override LC_MESSAGES and LC_ALL before invoking
diff.

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