Subject: Re: locale support?
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: None <erh@nimenees.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/26/2000 09:22:22
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 04:35:17AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20000525203436.B19851@vex.net>,
> David Maxwell <david@vex.net> wrote:
> > > Actually, thats not the shell, and csh, but libc.
> > True, but I couldn't manage to get sh to behave the same way. i.e.:
> 
> Yeah, because the shell does not do the setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, ""); call.
	Actually, sh uses a custom table of error messages so it can give a
more reasonable error depending on the context it occurs in.  So the
setlocale call won't do anything useful.  (btw, LC_MESSAGES isn't in the
man page)

eric