> > New Glibc needs LC_CTYPE in order to work well.
> > The -C option was not being recognized.
>
> Thanks for the patch; I've applied the latter to 1.6 and 1.7.
>
> Leaving out LC_CTYPE was intentional; setting it has the potential to
> mess up the ctype macros. This problem has been resolved in Wget 1.7,
> which sets LC_CTYPE and uses a different version of ctype.
>
> Having said that, setting LC_CTYPE shouldn't cause too much harm; it
> would probably be safe to set it in 1.6, perhaps conditionalized under
> GLIBC.
The problem is that when using gettext you must set LC_CTYPE (since recent
versions of libc). The C library is really lacking in this respect, one
should be able to force a locale for just one function call (
locprintf("C",... ) ? ).
In this case, the is*() functions should be replaced with custom versions,
because the libc versions are supposed to be localized.
