Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 08:44:04 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Message-ID: <199510160744.IAA24308@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <MkGuPWm8c2@ache.dialup.demos.ru> from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Oct 16, 95 02:49:36 am
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As =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= wrote: > > >You misunderstood me. I was thinking of an explicit setlocale() > >inside all system utilities (except daemons) that use <ctype.h>. > > 1) Too match sources will be changed cause troubles with patches > and upgrades. That doesn't count. The base utilities aren't being upgraded that often. > 2) It can be called twice, since first time call comes from > crt0. That should only result in a nop, does it? > 3) It is useful only for <=8bit locales, so you can't call setlocale, > multichars becomes damaged, you need to call reduced to 8bit > setlocale version as done in crt0. > 4) Using non-standard (non-POSIX/ANSI/etc) reduced setlocale in > all sources cause portability problems. Ah, i didn't knew that our locale support ain't complete yet. I was under the impression that the LC_CTYPE part was already ok. -- 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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