auto-br-analyze.pl: Fix failure when LANG != C. (RHBZ#545867).

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+Auto-BuildRequires is a simple set of scripts for automatically
+suggesting BuildRequires lines for programs.
+
+Written by Richard W.M. Jones, rjones@redhat.com,
+http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/
+http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/auto-buildrequires/
+
+Usage:
+
+  auto-br-rpmbuild -ba foo.spec
+
+If your build command is more complex, try:
+
+  auto-br [command ...]
+
+
+Developers
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The basic "magic" is a C LD_PRELOAD module, auto-buildrequires-preload.c,
+which intercepts some system calls to determine which files the build
+is looking at.  Those get logged to a simple text file.
+
+The Perl analysis script, auto-br-analyze.pl.in, runs afterwards on
+the logfile, and uses rpm to find out which packages those files
+belong to.  Those are printed out as the list of BuildRequires.
+
+A shell script, auto-br.sh.in, holds the whole thing together.