meson: check whether C.UTF-8 exists or not and use it if exists

If C.UTF-8 does not exist, then fallback to en_US.UTF-8 or C.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/choose-default-locale.sh b/tools/choose-default-locale.sh
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/choose-default-locale.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+# Fedora uses C.utf8 but Debian uses C.UTF-8
+if locale -a | grep -xq -E 'C\.(utf8|UTF-8)'; then
+        echo 'C.UTF-8'
+elif locale -a | grep -xqF 'en_US.utf8'; then
+        echo 'en_US.UTF-8'
+else
+        echo 'C'
+fi