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Re: Patches against sh-utils 2.0.11


From: Ulrich Drepper
Subject: Re: Patches against sh-utils 2.0.11
Date: 18 Aug 2001 04:40:30 -0700
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks for pointing that out.
> For my edification, why is it a bad idea to set both LC_TIME and LC_CTYPE?

There is no guarantee that the implementation doesn't have more
inter-dependencies between the locale categories.  The whole concept
of different locale categories seemed nice in the beginning but it is
fatally flawed.

> Peter's point is still valid.  I don't want the setting of LC_ALL=C
> for strftime to force all diagnostics into that locale.
> What do you think of this alternative?

Well, this should be fine everywhere.  Strictly speaking used have to
do something like this:


    setlocale (LC_ALL, "C");

    charset = strdup (nl_langinfo (CODESET));

    strftime (buf, ....)

    setlocale (LC_ALL, "old value");

    cd = iconv_open (nl_langinfo (CODESET), charset);

    iconv (cd, buf, ..., buf2, ...)

    printf ("%s", buf2)


*Strictly* speaking.  The C locale is required to use ASCII and all
systems should require locales to use ASCII-compatible charsets.  I
don't know how EBCDIC systems work but they somehow manage it.

I wouldn't implement the above but maybe you can keep it in the back
of your head.

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