# Try to set the locale from the system configuration if we did not inherit any. One case where this # can happen is a linux with systemd where the user logs in via getty (e.g., on the system console). # See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/3092. This isn't actually our job, so there's # a bunch of edge-cases we are unlikely to handle properly. If we get a value for _any_ language # variable, we assume we've inherited something sensible so we skip this to allow the user to set it # at runtime without mucking with config files. # # NOTE: This breaks the expectation that an empty LANG will be the same as LANG=POSIX, but an empty # LANG seems more likely to be caused by a missing or misconfigured locale configuration. function __fish_set_locale set -l LOCALE_VARS set -a LOCALE_VARS LANG LANGUAGE LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE set -a LOCALE_VARS LC_MONETARY LC_MESSAGES LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS set -a LOCALE_VARS LC_TELEPHONE LC_MEASUREMENT LC_IDENTIFICATION # We check LC_ALL to figure out if we have a locale but we don't set it later. That is because # locale.conf doesn't allow it so we should not set it. for locale_var in $LOCALE_VARS LC_ALL if set -q $locale_var return 0 end end # Try to extract the locale from the kernel boot commandline. The splitting here is a bit weird, # but we operate under the assumption that the locale can't include whitespace. Other whitespace # shouldn't concern us, but a quoted "locale.LANG=SOMETHING" as a value to something else might. # Here the last definition of a variable takes precedence. if test -r /proc/cmdline for var in (string match -ra 'locale.[^=]+=\S+' < /proc/cmdline) set -l kv (string replace 'locale.' '' -- $var | string split '=') # Only set locale variables, not other stuff contained in these files - this also # automatically ignores comments. if contains -- $kv[1] $LOCALE_VARS and set -q kv[2] set -gx $kv[1] (string trim -c '\'"' -- $kv[2]) end end end # Now read the config files we know are used by various OS distros. # # /etc/sysconfig/i18n is for old Red Hat derivatives (and possibly of no use anymore). # # /etc/env.d/02locale is from OpenRC. # # The rest are systemd inventions but also used elsewhere (e.g. Void Linux). systemd's # documentation is a bit unclear on this. We merge all the config files (and the commandline), # which seems to be what systemd itself does. (I.e. the value for a variable will be taken from # the highest-precedence source) We read the systemd files first since they are a newer # invention and therefore the rest are likely to be accumulated cruft. # # NOTE: Slackware puts the locale in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh, which we can't use because it's a # full POSIX-shell script. set -l user_cfg_dir (set -q XDG_CONFIG_HOME; and echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME; or echo ~/.config) for f in $user_cfg_dir/locale.conf /etc/locale.conf /etc/env.d/02locale /etc/sysconfig/i18n if test -r $f while read -l kv set kv (string split '=' -- $kv) if contains -- $kv[1] $LOCALE_VARS and set -q kv[2] # Do not set already set variables again - this makes the merging happen. if not set -q $kv[1] set -gx $kv[1] (string trim -c '\'"' -- $kv[2]) end end end <$f end end # If we really cannot get anything, at least set character encoding to UTF-8. for locale_var in $LOCALE_VARS LC_ALL if set -q $locale_var return 0 end end set -gx LC_CTYPE en_US.UTF-8 end