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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:09:20 -0400
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On 10/30/2015 3:14 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 30 10:07, Ken Brown wrote:
>> What about the other issue I raised: Should setlocale return null to
>> indicate an error if it's given an invalid locale name like en_DE.UTF-8?
>
> Huh.  Interesting.  You're runing Windows10, right?

Yes

>  After some digging
> it turns out there's a bug in W10.  LocaleNameToLCID() does *not* fail
> and return with an error if it doesn't know a locale.  That would be too
> simple I guess.  Rather, it returns a value LOCALE_CUSTOM_UNSPECIFIED,
> 0x1000.  So all unknown locales are now treated as custom locale.  Duh!
> I fear the answer when trying to report this.  Probably it's a feature...
>
> I applied a patch to workaround this feature.

Confirmed.  Thanks.

Ken

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