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Re: perror, gettext, question marks
- To: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: perror, gettext, question marks
- From: Mark Brown <bmark at us dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 11:15:48 -0600
- Organization: IBM Corp.
- References: <200012061213.VAA07939@sparc18.personal-media.co.jp>
- Reply-To: bmark at us dot ibm dot com
Chiaki Ishikawa wrote:
>
> X-PMC-CI-e-mail-id: 14224
>
> >> You can argue that all programs should call setlocale(LC_ALL,"") but this
> >> doesn't practically work because:
> >
> >And this is what has to happen. There are many more possibilities how
> >you can shoot yourself in the foot by not setting the locales
> >correctly. Either you don't use locales or you do it correctly.
>
> I think it takes a little while before the general
> computing community, especially the programmers, begins
> handling these locale issues correctly.
I think that some of us get frustrated, in that setlocale() has been around
since at least 1992....
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Mark S. Brown bmark@us.ibm.com
Senior Technical Staff Member 512.838.3926 T/L678.3926
IBM RS/6000 AIX System Architecture Mark Brown/Austin/IBM
IBM Corporation, Austin, Texas