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Date:      Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:03:25 +0300
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        i18n@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Documenting composite LC_ALL locale, anyone?
Message-ID:  <20040201130325.GA42457@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20040201124913.GB59402@FreeBSD.org.ua>
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On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 02:49:13PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> One option to deal with this complex case (LC_ALL, composite locale,
> and when some of the components start with a `/') would be to replace
> each single slash with two adjacent slashes, so an argument of
> `/pathto/localedef/output' would become `//pathto//localedef//output'.
> Then double slashes in the input would represent a single slash, and
> single shash would represent a component separator.

//xxx///yyy//zzz is /xxx /yyy/zzz or /xxx/ yyy/zzz ?

> Unfortunately, POSIX-200x is silent on this case while requiring that
> the output of ``setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL)'' should be such that when
> it's fed back to ``setlocale(LC_ALL, ...)'' it should restore all of
> the locale components.  Perhaps we should seek for some clarifications
> in the Austin Group?  ;)

This is implementation-defined. It does not matter to standartize it=20
because it can't be modified, only saved/restored.

--=20
Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/

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