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Re: locale.h not POSIX-compliant



On May 5,  3:02pm, msporleder%gmail.com@localhost (matthew sporleder) wrote:
-- Subject: 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 =A0<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 =A0<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.ht=
| ml
| >>> >>
| >>> >> /usr/include/locale.h does not support some 2008 POSIX extensions to=
|  the
| >>> >> ISO C standard. =A0I 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/

this is an LC_COLLATE issue, not that particular issue.

christos


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