Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:50:48 +0100 From: Cejka Rudolf <cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@privatelabs.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting locale Message-ID: <20001130095048.A50821@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from mi@privatelabs.com on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:02:30PM -0500
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Mikhail Teterin wrote (2000/11/29):
> How do I make force my C-program use the right locale? I could do
> something like:
> setlocale(LC_ALL, getenv("LANG"))
> but is not that what specifying NULL is supposed to do?
No. There is a difference between NULL and "" - man setlocale:
Only three locales are defined by default, the empty string "" which de-
notes the native environment, and the "C" and "POSIX" locales, which de-
note the C language environment. A locale argument of NULL causes
setlocale() to return the current locale.
... which for "" means that (man setlocale on Solaris) ...
A value of "" for locale specifies that the locale should be
taken from environment variables.
--
Rudolf Cejka (cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz; http://www.fee.vutbr.cz/~cejkar)
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of El. Engineering and Comp. Science
Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno, Czech Republic
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