lp:~gagern/bzr/setlocale

Some aspects of bzr, especially output formatting and behaviour of libraries used by plugins, depends on the current locale of the application. In the past this has caused problems for e.g. bzr-svn. bzr schould call setlocale on the top level in order to set the locale according to environment settings. Some aspects of this are discussed in bug #128496.

Digging through old list archives, it seems this branch has been mostly obsoleted by now, as a number of individual features have been spliced out and merged. I'm quoting merging bzr.dev revision numbers and mailing list subjects:

3518: setlocale mini (#128496)
3528: Remove unused call to format_date
3529: Improved UnicodeFilenameFeature
3754: local weekday support

The only remaining issue seems to be from a mailing list thread with subject "More robust handling of encoding issues in tests". I've just updated it to match current bzr.dev and pushed it to lp:~gagern/bzr/encodingSafeTests