LC_MESSAGES problem ?

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 19:40:42 +0100
> From: Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de>

> --enable-nls now *is* the default for anything other then canadian cross.

The NLS support was premature when I contributed it, which is why
--enable-nls was not the default.  Apparently the NLS support is still
premature.  (I haven't looked at it for a while.)

> So
>
> #ifdef HAVE_LC_MESSAGES
>   setlocale (LC_MESSAGES, "");
> #endif
> 
> should be changed to unconditionally use setlocale (LC_ALL, "")?

Yes, that is the only portable thing to do.

My goal was to fix GCC so that it would still work if you replace the
above with setlocale (LC_ALL, "").  I didn't have time to do that, though.

> this would require carefull review of the GCC code to see that
> nothing breaks because of changing collation rules etc.

Yes, of course.  The review shouldn't be that hard, but it will be a
bit tedious.  You have to rip out most uses of <ctype.h> macros, for
example.  This is the only realistic way to fix GCC.

> But as GCC does seem to need a fix, I can do it easily as I now maintain the
> i18n specific parts of gcc.

Yes, please fix it as described above.  The current code is broken.

> JFI, at least for the CVS versions of gcc you nowadays have to specify
> --disable-nls to not use it.

I would make --disable-nls the default until after GCC is fixed as
described above.  The current behavior is definitely broken for some
locales.