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Re: Calling setlocale() in utilities

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Subject: Re: Calling setlocale() in utilities
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:16:00 +0200

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 03:43:23AM +0100, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
> I was wondering if there was any reason not to add a call to setlocale
> in the utilities we ship in base (I'm thinking of what's in /sbin and
> /bin if applicable)?

(1) The program can't deal with localised character set etc.
(2) Partial localisation looks worse than none at all.

Joerg

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- Calling setlocale() in utilities
  - From: Sevan Janiyan

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