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Subject: setlocale question
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:35:14 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@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