From 7a75878b399e50c57a4344024773983e49ab85e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Kavanagh <rak@rak.ac>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:22:23 -0400
Subject: Programmatically pick best locale

---
 dot_zshrc.tmpl | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'dot_zshrc.tmpl')

diff --git a/dot_zshrc.tmpl b/dot_zshrc.tmpl
index 280886c..440d86f 100644
--- a/dot_zshrc.tmpl
+++ b/dot_zshrc.tmpl
@@ -32,7 +32,11 @@
 
 # BEGIN LOCAL
 
-export LANG="{{ .locale }}"
+if ! export LANG=$(locale -a | egrep -i "en_CA.UTF-?8"); then
+    if ! export LANG=$(locale -a | egrep -i "C.UTF-?8"); then
+        export LANG=C
+    fi
+fi
 export LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
 export LC_COLLATE=C                     # force strict lexicographic sorting
 export TIME_STYLE=long-iso              # make ls -l use YYYY-MM-DD in dired
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