Re: [Bug-ed] [PATCH] configure: respect user env settings

[Claudio Fontana]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Antonio Diaz Diaz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>
>> First we have to fix the locale otherwise some of the arg parsing may
>> fail.
>
> ...
>>
>> +LC_ALL=C
>
> I suppose ed itself should also use the C locale, otherwise ed scripts using
> regular expressions may fail.

I think ed should do what every other package is doing, ie something
along the lines of

#ifdef HAVE_SETLOCALE
  setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
#endif
#ifdef ENABLE_NLS
  bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
  textdomain (PACKAGE);
#endif

The regular expressions at runtime should adapt automagically to the locale set.
The unix regex.h API (regcomp, regexec) already works this way, so
since ed uses regex.h it should just work.