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Subject: Re: locale
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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On 9 October 2011 11:37, Jan Kolar wrote:
>
> Re: /cygwin-patches/ Add locale.exe option for querying Windows UI languages
>>
>> Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote in
>> h t t p : old nabble com
>>  Add-locale.exe-option-for-querying-Windows-UI-languages-to32614984.html
>>
>> Therefore, afaics, it would be better if we change locale to use the
>> GetFooDefaultUILanguage functions by default, and we add a modifier
>> (-r/--region?) to switch to LOCALE_FOO_DEFAULT.
>>
>
> Please, could locale follow what is standard and/or usual, that is "
> write information about the current locale environment   "
> how a cygwin-native a program sees it.  Cygwin-native =
> ported-from-unix.
>
> "       When invoked without arguments, locale summarizes the current
> locale environment for each locale category defined  by the LC_*
> environment variables.
> " (man locale  on  Linux)
>
>
> I use
>   ENVIR=value   locale
> (on Unixes) to find out what locale setting will recieve-and-use any
> Program if I call it with
>   ENVIR=value   Program
>
> That is, I expect  locale.exe (without options) to show how standard
> libraries interpret current LOCALE(7) setting, that is what setting is
> obtained from current settings in environment and files.
>
> For example
>
> $ uname
> Linux
>
> $ locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
> LC_TIME="en_US"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US" ...
>
> # I am not happy now
>
> $ export LC_ALL=cs_CZ
>
> $  locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="cs_CZ"
> LC_NUMERIC="cs_CZ"
> LC_TIME="cs_CZ"
> LC_COLLATE="cs_CZ" ...

It already does that. This thread is about additional Cygwin-specific
functionality.

Andy

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