On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:00:52 -0400 Michael B Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:36:05 -0500 > "William A. Rowe, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I know of no restrictions on a unix-like system that would interfere > > with choosing any arbitrary charset. Your post doesn't actually > > describe what problem you observed after setting LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-1. > > The charset fails over to ANSI_X3.4-1968 (aka ASCII) and setlocale returns > NULL. > > Strangely this actually works on another system I have. > > Anyone know how to install locale files on Debian? Well after some more digging I managed to generate german locales and all seems well. However, from searching the archives I recall some comments that it was perhaps inappropriate to use anything but the C locale because globally changing the locale might yield non-determinisitic behavior. Is that true? Or is it perfectly save for someone to run in de_DE.ISO-8859-1 for example? Mike
