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Re: perl giving setlocale failures with recent cygwin's, Egor please comment?
egor duda wrote:
>
> 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.
>
This is wrong. I will fix this.
-- Jeff J.