On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 11:07:38PM +0200, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >Try 'LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1' instead. You need the language and > >country parts there. > > That works. However I wonder: why do I need to specifiy a language and > country? ISO-8859-1 is ISO-8859-1, independently of any specific > country, after all.
The LC_CTYPE variable sets the character classification and case conversion rules. Picking an encoding is just one part of this: things like case conversion rules vary considerably between languages and probably even variants of languages, and there isn't a reasonable way for the C library to guess which one you meant. > BTW, is this specified somewhere? POSIX? POSIX leaves locale names up to the implementation, with the exception of the predefined locales C and POSIX. For the gory details, see: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/setlocale.html The latter does happen to give fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 as an example, though. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
