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Re: bash and the current locale implementation


According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/1/2009 4:28 AM:
> Consequentially, bash can't just call setlocale (LC_ALL, "").  Instead,
> bash calls the following:
> 
>   setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "foo");
>   setlocale (LC_NUMERIC, "foo");
>   setlocale (LC_TIME, "foo");
>   [...]

I'll see if I can find some way to patch bash.

> 
> Same goes for dash, btw, but it isn't locale-aware anyway.

dash prides itself on being as small as possible; I'm not going out of my
way to change that by adding locale support.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net


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