On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Rugxulo wrote:

> OpenWatcom has locale.h, but its headers are just confusing (thanks to
> supporting a billion OSes), so I have no idea if it's just empty stubs
> for DOS (probably) vs. works fine on Windows. (To most people,
> supporting cp850 was exotic enough, I guess.) They did used to have
> Japanese error messages for the compiler proper, but that's not the
> same as setlocale() and lconv->currency_symbol, etc. (Though their
> included vi clone was made 8-bit clean in latest release, I think, but
> I haven't tested.)

Heh.  I had some UTF-8 translation stuff in my IRC client for DOS, but it 
was all hardwired (though supported 3 codepages - 437, 850 and 852).  I 
bet the majority of apps simply assumed 437 (or maybe the 437/850 subset).

-uso.

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