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Date:      Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:48:03 +0400 (MSD)
From:      =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.ru>
To:        sanpei@yy.cs.keio.ac.jp
Cc:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, GNATS Management <gnats@freefall.freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/3322: setlocale problem in lang/perl5
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970418174651.427A-100000@nagual.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199704181014.TAA01544@lavender.yy.cs.keio.ac.jp>

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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997 sanpei@yy.cs.keio.ac.jp wrote:

> 	(1) setlocale function is used in perl5.
> 	(2) shared library which has setlocale is libc and libxpg4.
> 	    setlocale in libc is only support LANG C.
> 	    on the other, setlocale in libxpg4 is support other
> 	    LANGs, one is ja_JP.EUC.
> 	(3) And perl5 is linked only libc, not libxpg4.
> 	(4) If set environment variable LANG to ja_JP.EUC, perl5
> 	    outputted some warnings.
> 
> 	Solution
> 	    link libxpg4 (before libc.)

It is possible only if perl5 fully support 16bit wide characters
and string, if not, it breaks perl5 badly.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@null.net>
http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/




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