mk: export locales much earlier

also simplify the way it works (eval and awk)

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mk b/mk
index 61c0020b..cea6c943 100755
--- a/mk
+++ b/mk
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
 
 set -u -e
 
+eval "`printf "%s\n" "LANG LANGUAGE LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE \
+    LC_MONETARY LC_MESSAGES LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE \
+    LC_MEASUREMENT LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_ALL" | \
+    awk '{ for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) $i = "export " $i "=C.UTF-8;"; print }'`"
+
 (
 xbarg0="$0"
 [ "${xbarg0##*/}" = "$xbarg0" ] && \