Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 19:11:18 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: core@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, phk@critter.tfs.com Subject: Re: Locale stuff: call for conclusion. Message-ID: <199510170911.TAA02971@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>1. The crt0.s thing is a kludge, which should go away as soon as > something more sane is implemented. Agreed. >2. The crt0.s thing is actually a violation of some stds. See my previous mail about changing it to meet the C standard (change locale to the one specified by $LANG if $LANG is set, the restore everything specified by the standard - mainly alpha characters). >3. There is no harm to make the default case (unsetenv LANG & all that) > be ISO-8859-1, and this will make a lot of people a lot more happy. > It may not help Andrey much, but it is a large part of our userbase. Yes there is. It has more letters. >[More that I agree with]. >A) execute 3. Nope. >B) execute 1. in the other sense of the word, and get crt0.s cleaned up. > This will happen January 1st 1996 even if A) and/or C) hasn't happened. It can't be done sanely until after 3. Perhaps you meant 2096 :-). Bruce
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