X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6E7EF003DE3743959BC8EC8F0A6872AA@LeakyCauldron> References: <6E7EF003DE3743959BC8EC8F0A6872AA AT LeakyCauldron> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:16:10 +0000 Message-ID: <416096c61001041116v72743a17i879979d84a444d01@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7.1 sprintf() with format string having 8th bit set From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 2010/1/4 Joseph Quinsey: > 1) In my bad test, I already had my LOCALE set to C.ASCII: > > =C2=A0 env | grep LC > =C2=A0 LC_ALL=3DC.ASCII To use the locale set in the environment you need to invoke setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""), i.e. with an empty string as the second parameter. Without a setlocale call, your program will use the initial locale: "C". > And this setting generates a nuisance > message "locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C" whenever I start > nedit. Yep, unfortunately X has its own ideas of what valid locales are, independent of Cygwin's. Therefore you should set a locale with an actual language, e.g. "en_US.ISO-8859-1". (X probably won't accept the .ASCII either.) > And $LANG is ASCII, if this matters. That's an invalid setting, i.e. it should be in the same "language.charset" format. But it doesn't matter because LC_ALL takes priority. > 2) The call setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "C") did not work, although it returns i= ts > second argument. That's because the "C" locale is what's already selected at program startup. > 3) The call setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "POSIX") also did not work. It happens to > return "C". "POSIX" is just a synonym for "C". > The above behaviour seems to disagree with the man page. Which man page? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple