Bram Moolenaar writes:
> % locale -a
> locale: Command not found.
>
> I'm on FreeBSD 4.2. Perhaps Linux has this command.
Not only Linux. All SUSV2 compliant Unices have it. You might want
offer your help to Andrey Chernov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who is working
on i18n for FreeBSD 5.0.
> % man 5 locale
> No entry for locale in section 5 of the manual
> % man 7 locale
> No entry for locale in section 7 of the manual
>
> You are probably going to suggest I install Linux instead...
No, but you might want to install the Linux manpages. Like I installed
copies of BSD manpages in 1993 when Linux didn't have good manpages :-)
> ... to find the directory that contains the locales. For a portable
> program like Vim, is there a generic way that works on all Unix
> systems?
The best approximation I know of is the following.
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#! /bin/sh
# Prints the list of all locale names, one per line.
locale -a
test $? = 0 && exit 0
host=`/bin/sh ../config.guess`
host_cpu=`echo $host | sed 's/^\([^-]*\)-\([^-]*\)-\(.*\)$/\1/'`
host_vendor=`echo $host | sed 's/^\([^-]*\)-\([^-]*\)-\(.*\)$/\2/'`
host_os=`echo $host | sed 's/^\([^-]*\)-\([^-]*\)-\(.*\)$/\3/'`
case "$host_os" in
sunos* | solaris*)
cd /usr/lib/locale && ls -1
;;
freebsd*)
cd /usr/share/locale && ls -1
;;
*)
echo "Don't know how to determine list of locales on $host_os" 1>&2
exit 1
;;
esac
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> I still haven't heard a reason why setlocale() needs to be case-sensitive.
If the standards did specify that locale names are case sensitive,
it would be easy to implement that way. But the standards don't say
so...
Bruno
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