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Re: NLS support will be disabled by default for now
* Dennis Bjorklund (db@zigo.dhs.org) [20001127 08:09]:
> What's the meaning with LC_MESSAGES, LC_TIME, LC_xxx if you only can set
> LC_ALL. There is no logic behind that.
Well, LC_ALL is a bit overkill IMO, but at least LC_MESSAGES and LC_CTYPE
*have* to be set both, as the character set (which is selected by LC_CTYPE)
should match the one used for the message catalog.
And setting LC_CTYPE alone does effect quite a bit already. And then there
are the cases of those locales, where LC_MESSAGES isn't supported and so
you must use LC_ALL.
All and all, for GCC to have correct NLS support, it needs to be locale
independent where it matters. This would mean creating replacement
macros/functions that behave like those of the C library for the C/POSIX
locale.
Philipp
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