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Subject: Re: setlocale question
In-Reply-To: <199609290437.GAA05650@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at "Sep 29, 96 06:37:35 am"
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From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (Andrey A. Chernov) <ache@nagual.ru>
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> Yes, cat seems to require a setlocale(), though
> 
> 	setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
> 
> is probably sufficient.  It is needed in case the -v option is
> specified.

No, cat not require setlocale() (old variant, at least).
It uses isascii() for -v which is locale-independend.

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Andrey A. Chernov
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