On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 06:09:01PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > > Around 18 o'clock on Jul 9, Jungshik Shin wrote: > > > > a) call setlocal (LC_ALL, "") myself? > > > > I'm afraid this can have an unexpected side effect, which could > > surprise/upset some application program developers. > > Agreed; this choice was somewhat rhetorical in nature...
You could do char * oldloc = strdup(setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL)); setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""); ... setlocale(LC_CTYPE, oldloc); free(oldloc); unless the program is multithreaded. > > > b) use $LANG or $LC_CTYPE? > > > > If this road is taken, it has to be determined which env. > > variables have to be refered to in what order. AFAIK, SUS and POSIX say > > that it's implementation-dependent. POSIX fixes the order to LC_ALL, then LC_CTYPE, then LANG. > Too bad the POSIX spec is closed so I can't check. POSIX 2001 is freely available online at http://www.UNIX-systems.org/version3/ http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/toc.htm Marius Gedminas -- Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems. -- Grace Murray Hopper, 1987
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