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Am 23.03.2023 um 20:48 schrieb Ken Brown via Cygwin:
> I'm reporting this here rather than the newlib list because the 
> behavior is compatible with Posix but not Linux, so I think it's a 
> Cygwin issue.
>
> Consider the following test case:
>
> $ cat locale_test.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <locale.h>
>
> int main ()
> {
>   const char *locale = "en_DE.UTF-8";
>   locale_t loc = newlocale (LC_COLLATE_MASK | LC_CTYPE_MASK, locale, 0);
>   if (!loc)
>     perror ("newlocale");
>   else
>     printf ("newlocale succeeded on invalid locale %s\n", locale);
> }
>
> $ gcc -o locale_test locale_test.c
>
> $ ./locale_test.exe
> newlocale succeeded on invalid locale en_DE.UTF-8
>
> On Linux, the newlocale call fails with ENOENT, as is documented on 
> the man page.  Posix doesn't say what should happen on an invalid 
> locale, so this is not, strictly speaking, a bug.
So the question is what is an invalid locale. In Linux, locales are only 
valid if explicitly listed somewhere.
This strict behaviour may be a problem. A much better approach is to 
allow any combination of known language_REGIOIN tags with encoding 
indications, to be much more flexible and dynamic.
So if such combinations are considered legal, as in cygwin, this is not 
a bug.

>
> Ken
>
> P.S. I noticed this because of a failing Emacs test.  No one else has 
> reported this test failure, so it seems that newlocale fails on an 
> invalid locale on all platforms supported by Emacs other than Cygwin.

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