On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 5:19 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz < psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote:
> According to lua wiki <http://lua-users.org/wiki/Lua > Locales%20In%20Lua%205.1>, in Lua 5.1 "identifiers [are] locale > dependent, and from the reference manual which states that "[the > documentation] derived from the Lua 5.1 reference manual < > http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/index.html>", I guess tha Scribunto is > still derived form Lua 5.1. > That's correct. > So, what I would like is being able to set the locale for a module and use > identifiers with locale characters. But `os.setlocale` isn't accessible in > scribunto modules. > Allowing os.setlocale would very likely cause problems on threaded webservers where one thread's locale change stomps on another's. It might even cause trouble for subsequent requests on non-threaded servers if the locale doesn't get reset, or for other code running during the same request (e.g. see T107128 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107128>). For sanity's sake, on Wikimedia wikis we use C.UTF-8 as the OS-level locale. This doesn't affect much since MediaWiki usually uses its own i18n mechanisms instead of using the locale. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
