Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 22:56:52 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Jason Simms <jlsimms@hotmail.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Localization and locale()? Message-ID: <38A101A4.7500CAD1@softweyr.com> References: <20000208213905.96551.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Jason Simms wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am currently writing several programs that, for one reason or another,
> need to be localized in various sections. On Solaris, I can see what
> choices I have by running 'locale -a'. However, all my attempts to find a
> similar function on FreeBSD 3.4 have failed.
>
> I would have searched the mailing list archives, but they are, of course,
> currently down. Also, my search through the handbook also only showed
> examples for Russian and German encoding (section 12).
>
> For my specific problem, I need access to the following three character
> sets:
>
> es_ES.ISO8859-1
> pt.PT.ISO8859-1
> en_US.ISO8859-1
>
> And within my program (Perl), I need to use the setlocale() function
> imported from the POSIX module (actually, from the locale_h header file).
> If I run this on FreeBSD, will the program die on me due to the apparent
> lack of a locale function? If one is available, where can I get it from?
> And finally, if these character sets are not installed on my system, what is
> the best way to go about getting them on there? Any help or insight would
> be appreciated, so thanks!
man -k locale reports:
mklocale(1) - make LC_CTYPE locale files
perllocale(1) - Perl locale handling (internationalization and locali
zation)
setlocale(3), localeconv(3) - natural language formatting for C
setrunelocale(3), setinvalidrune(3), sgetrune(3), sputrune(3) - rune support for
C
strxfrm(3) - transform a string under locale
I18N::Collate(3) - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current lo
cale 1 *** 3 WARNING: starting from the Perl version 5.003_06 the I18N::Co
llate interface for comparing 8-bit scalar data according to the current local
e 1 HAS BEEN DEPRECATED 4 That is, please do not use it anymore for an
y new applications and please migrate the old applications away from it becaus
e its functionality was integrated into the Perl core language in the releas
e 5.003_06. 1 See the perllocale manual page for further information. 1 ***
locale(3) - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-
in operations
It seems highly likely that either setlocale(3) or locale(3) are what you're
looking for. So, I guess my advice would be to RTFM. ;^)
--
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