make lpstat output LANG aware in MacOS

[ice6]

so that the script can work in non-english user's mac machine.

[sapireli]

Thank you so much for the submission, i already implemented this in the code where you see:
export LANG=C export LC_ALL=C

Glad it worked! Happy new year.

[ice6]

hi @sapireli happy new year!

then, you have to add this line to your code: export SOFTWARE=.

see the detail here:

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I am sorry that I closed the issue too early .

[sapireli]

@ice6 happy new year to you and yours as well!

In a bash script, the line:

export SOFTWARE=.

does the following:
1. Sets an environment variable:
• The export command marks the variable SOFTWARE for export to child processes of the shell.
• This means any subprocess (like another script or program) spawned from this shell will have access to the SOFTWARE variable.
2. Assigns a value:
• SOFTWARE=. assigns the value . (the current directory) to the SOFTWARE variable.
• The dot (.) is a shorthand for the current working directory in Linux/Unix systems.

In our Use Case: it doesn’t do anything as it is not used in the script. Two lines that follow in the updated version is what forces English for the all the subprocesses which we spawn and that’s what fixed the issue.

[ice6]

@sapireli I hope this picture can make the idea clear.

without the export SOFTWARE=, in my wired machine, it still outputs chinese.

[sapireli]

Thank you 🙏. Let me examine this in a test environment. I don’t fully understand why passing a variable changes anything

[sapireli]

This works well. Great find thank you so much. Happy holidays and happy new year 🙏 @ice6

[ice6]

@sapireli happy holidays. 🤗