Some functions in libmagic (distributed with fileinfo extension) perform this sequence of calls:
func() {
setlocale(LC_TYPE, "C")
.. do some work ..
setlocale(LC_TYPE, "")
}
It effectively resets LC_TYPE if it that was set before the function call.
To avoid manipulations with current locale at all, the problematic functions
were modified to use locale-independent functions.
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