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Re: bash and the current locale implementation
On Oct 1 04:50, Eric Blake wrote:
> 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.
setenv (locale_var);
if (locale_var == "LANG" || "LC_ALL")
setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
else if (locale_var == "LC_CTYPE")
setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "");
would be sufficient. But I can't say I'm really happy about this. It
sure sounds like a hack, having to change bash. Unfortunately I can't
see any way to change Cygwin as long as the application doesn't change
its own environment.
> > 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.
Sure enough.
Thanks,
Corinna
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