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Re: locale.h not POSIX-compliant



On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> In article <20120504223106.GA27477%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
> Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>>On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 10:28:49PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>>> In article <20120504220456.GA25754%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
>>> Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>>> >On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 05:40:17PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
>>> >> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/locale.h.html
>>> >>
>>> >> /usr/include/locale.h does not support some 2008 POSIX extensions to the
>>> >> ISO C standard.  I propose we add them per the attached patch.
>>> >
>>> >I object the patch as it is pointless.
>>>
>>> Yes, but it is part of the standard, so what can we do?
>>
>>I don't mind a proper implementation (and I have the review of the
>>multi-locale patch pretty high on my To Do list), but just adding the
>>masks is pointless.
>
> Ok, let's wait until we actually have them :-)
>
> christos
>

Would this address long-standing issues with perl locales and netbsd?
http://code.activestate.com/lists/perl5-porters/167145/


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