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Date:      Sun, 3 Sep 2000 19:10:32 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Alexander Voropay <a.voropay@globalone.ru>, i18n@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for review: locale aliases support for libc
Message-ID:  <20000903191032.A45592@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20000903175558.A45276@ark.cris.net>; from phantom@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:55:58PM %2B0300
References:  <34d701c01424$4a2e4b60$cd0d11ac@host205.spb.in.rosprin.ru> <20000901192017.B29804@nagual.pp.ru> <20000903175558.A45276@ark.cris.net>

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On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:55:58PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> Ok. But how to pass to the application information about expanded form of
> the locale ? Just some applications use it to build path which contains
> some kind of data files. There're few possibilties to do it under mentioned
> restrictions:

I can't imagine situation that application need to know precisely expanded
locale form.

> . make setlocale(LC_XXX, NULL) returning expanded form of the locale name. 

I disagree. It is against POSIX.

> . introduce new function: locale_expand_alias() which should return
>   expanded form of the locale string.

Maybe, but I don't think it ever needed as I already say above.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nagual.pp.ru>
http://ache.pp.ru/


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