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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:05:57 -0400
From: "J. Johnston" <jjohnstn AT redhat DOT com>
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To: egor duda <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: perl giving setlocale failures with recent cygwin's, Egor please 
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egor duda wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Thursday, 29 August, 2002 Christopher Faylor cgf AT redhat DOT com wrote:
> 
> CF> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:58:47PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:56:52 +0400
> >>>>> egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru> said:
> >>
> >>> Yes, it's definitely so. Previously, setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "") was
> >>> returning "C", while now, in MB_CAPABLE configuration, it returns NULL.
> >>>
> >>> I'm not sure whether it's better to fix it in newlib or in perl, though.
> >>
> >>setlocale(category, "") commonly returns "C" when any relevant
> >>environment variables aren't set. The MB_CAPABLE version of
> >>setlocale should be fixed.
> 
> CF> Is it not doing that?  AFAICT, that's how it works.
> 
> It returns "C" for all categories except LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES.
> For setlocale (LC_CTYPE, ""), it gets to newlib/libc/locale/locale.c:155
> and returns NULL.
> 

This is wrong.  I will fix this.

-- Jeff J.