[SOLVED] grep uses wrong locale

Idlusen · 2021-04-26 16:59:22

Greetings,

My grep from the official package spits out some messages in German even though I never generated this locale.

Here is the output of locale -a

C
fr_FR.utf8
POSIX

And the output of locale

LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Last edited by Idlusen (2021-04-27 14:40:12)

seth · 2021-04-26 20:19:47

In particular?

strings /usr/bin/grep | grep '<german text you see here>'

Idlusen · 2021-04-27 08:09:43

strings /usr/bin/grep | grep 'Übereinstimmungen in Binärdatei'

returns nothing…

mpan · 2021-04-27 10:12:09

Provide of the output of that directly before running grep:

echo "$LANG"

If using bash:

type grep

In other shells, if they do not support type:

which grep

Idlusen · 2021-04-27 10:32:36

echo "$LANG" :

fr_FR.UTF-8

type grep :

grep est un alias vers « grep --color=auto »

If I issue unalias grep then LANG=C type grep :

grep is hashed (/usr/bin/grep)

And even LANG=C pacman -Qo /usr/bin/grep :

/usr/bin/grep is owned by grep 3.6-1

Nothing suspicious.

Edit: I also tried

grep Binärdatei /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo

for sanity but that returns nothing as one should expect.

Last edited by Idlusen (2021-04-27 11:01:10)

Scimmia · 2021-04-27 12:16:48

Post the exact command and output.

Idlusen · 2021-04-27 12:23:36

grep -ir fuit ~/J/HoMM3\ Complete/

grep: /home/idlusen/J/HoMM3 Complete/HEROES3.HLP: Übereinstimmungen in Binärdatei
grep: /home/idlusen/J/HoMM3 Complete/Data/VIDEO.VID: Übereinstimmungen in Binärdatei
grep: /home/idlusen/J/HoMM3 Complete/H3Blade.hlp: Übereinstimmungen in Binärdatei

seth · 2021-04-27 13:22:43

strace grep -i fruit /home/idlusen/J/HoMM3 Complete/HEROES3.HLP 2>&1 | grep locale
LC_ALL=C grep -i fruit /home/idlusen/J/HoMM3 Complete/HEROES3.HLP

Idlusen · 2021-04-27 13:48:43

strace grep -i fuit /home/idlusen/J/"HoMM3 Complete/HEROES3.HLP" 2>&1 | grep locale

outputs:

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo", O_RDONLY) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo", O_RDONLY) = 4
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo", O_RDONLY) = 4

And

LC_ALL=C grep -i fuit /home/idlusen/J/"HoMM3 Complete/HEROES3.HLP"

outputs:

grep: /home/idlusen/J/HoMM3 Complete/HEROES3.HLP: binary file matches

seth · 2021-04-27 13:55:06

echo $LANGUAGE

Do you have this here configured somewhere?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lo … ck_locales

You're looking at french, spanish and ultimately german and the utf locale paths aren't even considered.

Idlusen · 2021-04-27 14:04:54

Ah that’s it:

fr_FR:es_ES:de_DE

I don’t know where or when I set that, great way to troll myself.
I guess that means the French translation isn’t available in the last update?

Last edited by Idlusen (2021-04-27 14:09:04)

seth · 2021-04-27 14:17:38

It's still in https://translationproject.org/PO-files … 5.16.fr.po but https://translationproject.org/domain/grep.html also ends at that version… jenesaispas :-(
Something about the translation will have changed and that probably nuked the token, yes.

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[SOLVED] grep uses wrong locale

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