any reason to set LC_ALL to C explicitly?

[stanleyz]

puppet-r10k/templates/agent/r10k.rb.erb

Line 80 in 9007f98

environment = {"LC_ALL" => "C","PATH" => "#{ENV['PATH']}:<%= if @is_pe == true or @is_pe == 'true' then '/opt/puppet/bin' else '/usr/local/bin' end %>", "http_proxy" => "<%= @http_proxy %>", "https_proxy" => "<%= @http_proxy %>", "GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY" => "<%= @git_ssl_no_verify %>" }

Any reason the above line set LC_ALL to C explicitly? especially UTF-8 is the de facto standard on systems nowadays.

With the generate_types action implemented in #458 , setting such locale causes Puppet generates a empty metadata file for code that has non-ascii characters inside desc or @doc