Re: ctype, chrtbl, rune tables and POSIX2008

[yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi)]

hi,

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:32:19PM +0900, Takehiko NOZAKI wrote:
>> hi, all.
>> 
>> early stage of implementation of POSIX2008's multi-locale such as *_l
>> function is here.
>> (i wrote it for more 2years ago, need to catch up -current)
>> 
>> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnozaki/multi-locale-snapshot-20090102.tar.gz
>> 
>> more information, see following tech-userlevel discussion:
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.userlevel/10401
> 
> Your snapshot includes two different interfaces and I would like to get
> a consensus on what we want to support.
> 
> One part is the POSIX2008 explicit locale interface. Essentially, all
> functions operating on locale-sensitive data get a version which has
> the locale as explicit argument. E.g. isalpha(ch) -> isalpha_l(ch, l).
> This is highly desirable for multi-thread applications or programs
> dealing with input in different languages at the same time.
> 
> The second part is the Linux/Darwin Thread Local Locale interface.
> Basically, this allows setting a locale for the current thread without
> modifying the global (fall back) locale. IMO this is just insane and
> repeating the mistakes of the original locale interface. I am strongly
> in favour of *not* implementing this.

your suggestion is to add xlocale without uselocale, right?

is the rest of his patch ok for you?

YAMAMOTO Takashi

> 
> Joerg