On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:50 AM Norbert Preining
Hi Luigi,
here on Debian we got a bug report that luatex cannot build formats under a broken locale. I can reproduce this on standard TeX Live, too: $ LC_TIME=en_DE.UTF-8 luatex -ini -jobname=luatex -progname=luatex luatex.ini Unable to read environment locale: exit now. $ (same on dev version)
It comes from the code of luainit env_locale = setlocale (LC_ALL, ""); if (!env_locale && !lua_only) { fprintf(stderr,"Unable to read environment locale: exit now.\n"); exit(1); }
I agree that the locale is completely broken, and the system does not support this locale.
BUT it would be nice if luatex would not crash on such a setup, at least during format build?
WDYT?
It's not a bug, luatex wants a sane locale --- building a format or not, it doesn't matter. We can change it, but for sure not for texlive 2019. -- luigi