Ask Philipp Thomas....... he has already done that.
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > > The problem is that when using gettext you must set LC_CTYPE (since
> > > recent versions of libc). The C library is really lacking in this
> > > respect, one should be able to force a locale for just one function
> > > call ( locprintf("C",... ) ? ).
> >
> > Yeah, but it's simply inheriting the flaws of the Unix localization
> > model. There is a hack to set the locale to "C" temporarily and
> > revert back to whatever it was set to, but it's slow and ugly.
> >
> > > In this case, the is*() functions should be replaced with custom
> > > versions, because the libc versions are supposed to be localized.
> >
> > That's what 1.7 does.
>
> Yup... I guess I'll port that to 1.6. It's easy to do.
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