[19:50] <mrand> Is  $LANG  an acceptable (and expected to be future supported) way to support locales?  This is in reference to this potential patch for MythTV: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41297489/mythtv-backend.conf.diff  If not, what is the recommended way?
[20:52] <JanC> mrand: that patch looks weird
[20:53] <mrand> JanC: I'm not sure that the person doing it understands upstart, and I'm "just" a triager.
[20:53] <mrand> Hence the ping here.
[20:54] <JanC> e.g. LANG=$LANG is basically assigning the value of LANG to LANG?
[20:55] <mrand> JanC: I believe that is a shell trick for making sure that it gets passed on to the called application?
[21:04] <JanC> I think you better ask in #ubuntu-devel (as this is Ubuntu-specific), but in my opinion LANG=$LANG is useless, and LC_ALL=$LANG might be wrong (there is a reason why there is both LANG &  LC_*) but there *might* be a reason for that (in which case the reason should be given--I have no idea what this patch tries to fix)
[21:05] <mrand> JanC: oops.... sorry, here is the bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541042