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Re: ru_RU locale bug?


From: E.Rodichev
Subject: Re: ru_RU locale bug?
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 02:46:12 +0300 (GMT)

Hi,

On 1 May 2002, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 16:22, E.Rodichev wrote:
>
> > What I'd like to suggest - to modify the locale in such a way, that does not
> > affect the us-ascii codes order. It looks like the optimum compromise
> > solution. What do you think about this way?
>
> Crap.  If you incrrectly depend on C locale behavior tell the programs
> so.  Put LC_ALL=C on the command line.  If you don't like this switch to
> using the C locale.

Crap. For many situations an application require the ru_RU.KOI8-R locale.
But *internal* parts of such application need the C locale behaviour,
when make deal with only us-ascii symbols.

And it *was* OK for many years (I speak about already written applications.
/bin/ls is an important example :)

Clearly, it is impossible to force the old functionality for old
applications, available, for example, only as binaries. This is why
I tell about *incompatibility* of new locale.

Best regards,
E.R.
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