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Re: perror, gettext, question marks
- To: Bruno Haible <haible at ilog dot fr>
- Subject: Re: perror, gettext, question marks
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 04 Dec 2000 08:57:08 -0800
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <14891.40281.836718.178522@honolulu.ilog.fr>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr> writes:
> You can argue that all programs should call setlocale(LC_ALL,"") but this
> doesn't practically work because:
And this is what has to happen. There are many more possibilities how
you can shoot yourself in the foot by not setting the locales
correctly. Either you don't use locales or you do it correctly.
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