Weirdness when changing languages (with solution)

I decided to change the default language of my Tao install from en_US to pt_BR, and did so editing 
/etc/sysconfig/i18n. When I rebooted, I saw there were errors when cups started. The cause was the 
following:

The redhat-config-printer packaghe has a Python script, /usr/share/printconf/util/cups_import.py, 
which defines the following function:

def which_spooler ():
     """Return the name of the active spooler."""
     signal.signal (signal.SIGCHLD, signal.SIG_DFL)
     f = os.popen ('/usr/sbin/alternatives --display print')
     for l in f.readlines ():
         if l.startswith (" link currently points to"):
             which = l.split ('.')[1].strip ()
             break
 

     f.close ()
     return which

You may have already noticed what the problem is: this assumes the output of the "alternatives" 
command is in the English language. It may not be so. I edited the script to be like this:

def which_spooler ():
     """Return the name of the active spooler."""
     signal.signal (signal.SIGCHLD, signal.SIG_DFL)
     f = os.popen ('LANG=en /usr/sbin/alternatives --display print')
     for l in f.readlines ():
         if l.startswith (" link currently points to"):
             which = l.split ('.')[1].strip ()
             break
 

     f.close ()
     return which

Now the output of the command is FORCED to be in English no matter what. Bug squashed.

-- 
Juan Carlos Castro y Castro
Desenvolvimento de Software
Gisplan Tecnologia da Geoinformação Ltda. - http://www.gisplan.com.br
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