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Re: perl giving setlocale failures with recent cygwin's, Egor please comment?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com, newlib at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:34:25 -0400
- Subject: Re: perl giving setlocale failures with recent cygwin's, Egor please comment?
- References: <20020829030930.GA2779@redhat.com> <6880518559.20020829125652@logos-m.ru> <s1sit1tvka0.fsf@jaist.ac.jp>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:58:47PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:56:52 +0400
>>>> egor duda <deo@logos-m.ru> said:
>
>> Yes, it's definitely so. Previously, setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "") was
>> returning "C", while now, in MB_CAPABLE configuration, it returns NULL.
>>
>> I'm not sure whether it's better to fix it in newlib or in perl, though.
>
>setlocale(category, "") commonly returns "C" when any relevant
>environment variables aren't set. The MB_CAPABLE version of
>setlocale should be fixed.
Is it not doing that? AFAICT, that's how it works.
cgf