Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 00:03:59 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Message-ID: <199510152303.AAA22305@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199510151805.OAA04841@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Oct 15, 95 02:05:21 pm
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As Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > > As near as I can tell the SVR4 ls doesn't change its locale, yet still > manages to do the right thing, probably because for most SVR4-en the C > locale is full ISO8859-1. This leads me to believe that FreeBSD's ls > probably doesn't need to change its locale either if the default chartype > table is fully populated. So SVR4 would still break on koi8-r, for example. Either make it right, or let it be. isctype() is not necessarily related to message catalogs. The extensive (i.e. blatant) use of message catalogs (AIX, IRIX) leads to very undesirable results, e.g. SMTP daemons throwing their error messages in German. :-( -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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