Fix MacVim's locale not having encoding when launched from Dock #1036
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When launching MacVim not from terminal, macOS doesn't set the $LANG environment variable, and the locale API doesn't have a way to return the encoding (probably because everything is UTF-8). As such Vim would set the locale to something like "en_US", which breaks certain tools that expects an encoding part set. Fix this by simply appending ".UTF-8" to the constructed locale (e.g. "en_US.UTF-8") if $LANG doesn't exist. This makes sense as we default to UTF-8 in MacVim and macOS is basically UTF-8 native anyway. Also, add a test that will make sure this is the case. Fix macvim-dev#1033
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If LANG is unset in macOS (either manually or when launching GUI version of Vim from the Dock where this environmental variable is not set by the OS), Vim tries to query the system locale and set that. However, the system API doesn't set the encoding part, and there are tools like new versions of Python that seems to want to have an explicit encoding bit set. Also, macOS defaults to UTF-8 anyway, so just make sure to append ".UTF-8" to the locale to explicitly set it. Also, add regression test for both this change and for 509f803 (vim#7003) which added logic to make sure we set LC_NUMERIC to "C" in the default locale detection. This is a port of macvim-dev/macvim#1036
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If LANG is unset in macOS (either manually or when launching GUI version of Vim from the Dock where this environmental variable is not set by the OS), Vim tries to query the system locale and set that. However, the system API doesn't set the encoding part, and there are tools like new versions of Python that seems to want to have an explicit encoding bit set. Also, macOS defaults to UTF-8 anyway, so just make sure to append ".UTF-8" to the locale to explicitly set it. Also, add regression test for both this change and for 509f803 (vim#7003) which added logic to make sure we set LC_NUMERIC to "C" in the default locale detection. This is a port of macvim-dev/macvim#1036
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If LANG is unset in macOS (either manually or when launching GUI version of Vim from the Dock where this environmental variable is not set by the OS), Vim tries to query the system locale and set that. However, the system API doesn't set the encoding part, and there are tools like new versions of Python that seems to want to have an explicit encoding bit set. Also, macOS defaults to UTF-8 anyway, so just make sure to append ".UTF-8" to the locale to explicitly set it. Also, add regression test for both this change and for 509f803 (vim#7003) which added logic to make sure we set LC_NUMERIC to "C" in the default locale detection. This is a port of macvim-dev/macvim#1036
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If LANG is unset in macOS (either manually or when launching GUI version of Vim from the Dock where this environmental variable is not set by the OS), Vim tries to query the system locale and set that. However, the system API doesn't set the encoding part, and there are tools like new versions of Python that seems to want to have an explicit encoding bit set. Also, macOS defaults to UTF-8 anyway, so just make sure to append ".UTF-8" to the locale to explicitly set it. Also, add regression test for both this change and for 509f803 (vim#7003) which added logic to make sure we set LC_NUMERIC to "C" in the default locale detection. This is a port of macvim-dev/macvim#1036
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When launching MacVim not from terminal, macOS doesn't set the $LANG environment variable, and the locale API doesn't have a way to return the encoding (probably because everything is UTF-8). As such Vim would set the locale to something like "en_US", which breaks certain tools that expects an encoding part set.
Fix this by simply appending ".UTF-8" to the constructed locale (e.g. "en_US.UTF-8") if $LANG doesn't exist. This makes sense as we default to UTF-8 in MacVim and macOS is basically UTF-8 native anyway.
Also, add a test that will make sure this is the case.
Fix #1033