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Re: perl giving setlocale failures with recent cygwin's, Egor please comment?
- From: egor duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>
- To: Christopher Faylor <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: newlib at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:48:11 +0400
- Subject: Re: perl giving setlocale failures with recent cygwin's, Egor please comment?
- Organization: deo
- References: <20020829030930.GA2779@redhat.com><6880518559.20020829125652@logos-m.ru> <s1sit1tvka0.fsf@jaist.ac.jp><20020829143425.GB26609@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: egor duda <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
Hi!
Thursday, 29 August, 2002 Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com wrote:
CF> 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.
CF> Is it not doing that? AFAICT, that's how it works.
It returns "C" for all categories except LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES.
For setlocale (LC_CTYPE, ""), it gets to newlib/libc/locale/locale.c:155
and returns NULL.
Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19