From ca4c22cf9d1da831f1b4d250872262bf45b564f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stevenpritchard <stevenpritchard>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:35:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Force en_US.UTF-8.

---
 Changes  | 4 +++-
 cpanspec | 8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index e52ac6a..cfda385 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-0.61    2006-03-08
+0.61    2006-03-11
 
 * Add this file.
 * Add some command-line options:
@@ -12,5 +12,7 @@
 
 * Fix path check to allow for a directory without a trailing /.
   (Found in Module::Install 0.59.)
+* Force en_US.UTF-8.
+  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185192
 
 # vi: set ai et:
diff --git a/cpanspec b/cpanspec
index 7d8825a..5ce93f7 100755
--- a/cpanspec
+++ b/cpanspec
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 #
-# $Id: cpanspec,v 1.10 2006/03/11 18:24:45 stevenpritchard Exp $
+# $Id: cpanspec,v 1.11 2006/03/11 18:35:39 stevenpritchard Exp $
 
 my $NAME="cpanspec";
 my $VERSION='1.61';
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ use FileHandle;
 use Archive::Tar;
 use Archive::Zip qw(:ERROR_CODES);
 use POSIX;
+use locale;
 use Text::Autoformat;
 use YAML qw(Load);
 use Module::CoreList;
@@ -346,6 +347,11 @@ sub extract($$$) {
     }
 }
 
+# Set locale to en_US.UTF8 so that dates in changelog will be correct
+# if using another locale. Also ensures writing out UTF8. (Thanks to
+# Roy-Magne Mo for pointing out the problem and providing a solution.)
+setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8");
+
 GetOptions(
         'help|h'            => \$help,
         'old|o'             => \$compat,