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From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To: Alexander Voropay <a.voropay@globalone.ru>
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Subject: Re: Request for review: locale aliases support for libc
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In-Reply-To: <34d701c01424$4a2e4b60$cd0d11ac@host205.spb.in.rosprin.ru>; from a.voropay@globalone.ru on Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 06:52:03PM +0400
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On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 06:52:03PM +0400, Alexander Voropay wrote:
>  AFAIK, the presense of any forms of locale "aliasing" does not
> comply current POSIX specifications :
>   string=setlocale(LC_xxx, "language_TERRITORY.Codeset");
> should returns _THE_SAME_ locale name _as requested_.


No, it means that returned string should be not expanded to its full form.

I.e. setlocale(LC_ALL, "ru") should return "ru" and not "ru_RU.KOI8-R"
and do all expansions internally and invisible to caller.

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