How do I (unconditionally) enable unicode support in busybox?

Rich Felker dalias at libc.org
Tue Aug 5 01:10:33 UTC 2014


On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 03:00:07PM -0400, Michael Conrad wrote:
> On 8/4/2014 2:48 PM, James Bowlin wrote:
> >BTW, the following code is an infinite loop in my
> >initrd:
> >
> >[ "$LANG" = "en_US.UTF-8" ] || LANG=en_US.UTF-8 exec "$0" "$@"
> 
> I think you should focus on this bug.  Which busybox version? Which
> libc version?  Because my busybox runs it just fine. (as should any
> conforming shell)

I suspect it's an issue with some option to run busybox commands in
the shell process itself rather than forking and execing. Seeing a
full config file would be useful.

Rich


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