On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:36:33AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Tom G. Christensen wrote: > > I can see that the call to setlocale returns 'C', however that makes > > gnulib nl_langinfo return "" since the dot = NULL case is not handled. > > Would it not be okay to simply return the output from setlocale in this > > case? > > No, "C" is a locale name, but not an encoding name. The function could > return "ASCII" or "ISO-8859-1" or "UTF-8", depending on what the system > does / what the fonts of the usual programs display.
Ah I see, just a misunderstanding on my part. > But IRIX 5.3 is so > old, it does not make sense to start the investigation. For such an obsolete > system, be happy that gnulib modules compile. > I'm very happy with the support and I certainly did not mean to imply otherwise. -tgc
