On May 26,  9:22am, erh@nimenees.com (erh@nimenees.com) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: locale support?

| 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)

Then sh should either be fixed to grab the error messages from libc
or provide its own language specific NLS tables. And please send-pr
about the missing info in the man page.

christos