> > 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",... ) ? ).
>
> Yeah, but it's simply inheriting the flaws of the Unix localization
> model. There is a hack to set the locale to "C" temporarily and
> revert back to whatever it was set to, but it's slow and ugly.
>
> > In this case, the is*() functions should be replaced with custom
> > versions, because the libc versions are supposed to be localized.
>
> That's what 1.7 does.
Yup... I guess I'll port that to 1.6. It's easy to do.
