Re: lib/42124: setlocale(3) never returns NULL with none existing locale.

[Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/42124; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>
To: takehiko.nozaki%gmail.com@localhost
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: lib/42124: setlocale(3) never returns NULL with none existing
 locale.
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:40:19 +0900 (JST)

 Hi,
 
 In message 
<2fe63cf90909260020j67fcb7fbm31bc58170cc02a2d%mail.gmail.com@localhost>
        on Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:20:07 +0900,
        Takehiko NOZAKI <takehiko.nozaki%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
 > NetBSD-4.0 LC_MESSAGES's behavior is just the kludge.
 > see following XXX comment:
 > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/locale/setlocale.c.diff?r1=1.36&r2=1.37
 I see.
 
 > or we have to add alias ja -> ja_JP.eucJP?
 I don't think so.
 
 > so please use LANG=ja_JP.eucJP instead of LANG=ja.
 Thanks.  Here is one more result.
 
 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
     LANG      |
 environment   | return value of setlocale()
 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
 not defined   | "C"
 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
 "ja_JP"       | NULL
 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
 "ja_JP.eucJP" | "C/ja_JP.eucJP/ja_JP.eucJP/ja_JP.eucJP/ja_JP.eucJP/ja_JP.eucJP"
 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
 "ja_JP.utf-8" | "C/ja_JP.utf-8/C/C/C/ja_JP.utf-8"
 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
 
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 Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>