From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 15 16:07:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA13679 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 16:07:09 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA13658 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 16:07:03 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA03851; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 00:06:50 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA12931; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 00:06:50 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id AAA22305; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 00:03:59 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510152303.AAA22305@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 00:03:59 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199510151805.OAA04841@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Oct 15, 95 02:05:21 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 826 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)