use LANG=C when parsing aif output. Fixes FS#14852

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/aif.sh b/src/aif.sh
index ec1b612..e58815f 100755
--- a/src/aif.sh
+++ b/src/aif.sh
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ done
 
 # Set pacman vars.  allow procedures to have set $var_TARGET_DIR (TODO: look up how delayed variable substitution works. then we can put this at the top again)
 # flags like --noconfirm should not be specified here.  it's up to the procedure to decide the interactivity
+# NOTE: Pacman will run with currently active locale, if you want to parse output, you should prefix with LANG=C
 PACMAN=pacman
 PACMAN_TARGET="pacman --root $var_TARGET_DIR --config /tmp/pacman.conf"
 
diff --git a/src/core/libs/lib-pacman.sh b/src/core/libs/lib-pacman.sh
index a104cee..19e2eca 100644
--- a/src/core/libs/lib-pacman.sh
+++ b/src/core/libs/lib-pacman.sh
@@ -157,5 +157,5 @@ list_packages ()
 # TODO: check $1
 which_group ()
 {
-	PACKAGE_GROUPS=`$PACMAN_TARGET -Si $1| awk '/^Name/{ printf("%s ",$3) } /^Group/{ print $3 }'`
+	PACKAGE_GROUPS=`LANG=C $PACMAN_TARGET -Si $1| awk '/^Name/{ printf("%s ",$3) } /^Group/{ print $3 }'`
 }