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Message-ID: <20160602171001.GA10492@voyager>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 19:10:01 +0200
From: Markus Wichmann <nullplan@....net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: How to set UTF-8 as default
On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 05:40:54PM +0200, Remko Tronçon wrote:
> So, if I understand correctly, any program that expects `nl_langinfo`
> to return the locale set through environment variables (or other
> platform-specific ways) should call setlocale(LC_*, "") before
> querying the locale; libc/musl/... will not trigger this registration
> itself.
>
A libc that did that wouldn't be ISO-C compliant, because ISO-C says
that the initial locale has to be "C".
I will often just call setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); at the start of the
program, as that saves me the headache of selecting all the correct
locale categories for my program.
> thanks!
> Remko
Ciao,
Markus
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