Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:35:14 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: setlocale question Message-ID: <199609282135.PAA29387@rover.village.org>
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In looking at the differences between NetBSD's cat and FreeBSD's cat, I noticed that NetBSD (and OpenBSD) has the following code before anything else in main: setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); I was wondering if that was needed, and if so why? I thought that libc already did the moral equivalent of the semeantics of this before passing control to main. The man page wasn't clear to me why this would be needed. Warner
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