libstdc++/6410: Trouble with non-Ascii monetary symbols and wchar_t

[Paolo Carlini]

bkoz@gcc.gnu.org wrote:

>Synopsis: Trouble with non-Ascii monetary symbols and wchar_t
>
>Responsible-Changed-From-To: unassigned->bkoz
>Responsible-Changed-By: bkoz
>Responsible-Changed-When: Mon May  6 07:54:31 2002
>Responsible-Changed-Why:
>    Perhaps not really mine, but I'll pretend.
>
No, no... Definitely yours! ;-)

>State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
>State-Changed-By: bkoz
>State-Changed-When: Mon May  6 07:54:31 2002
>State-Changed-Why:
>    According to Ulrich's comments here:
>    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2002-04/msg00244.html
>    
>    One solution would be to setlocale to de_DE@euro, for instance, in your testcase.
>    
>    I tried that, and it didn't work really well. Here's the patch I'm currently using. I don't really like it, one because it breaks the current library API, and two because it's not MT-safe. I think something like this might be useful just to the testsuites can be cleaned up, and then a solution for glibc 2.3/uselocale can be used (which won't break the API for 3.1)
>    
>    Sound like a plan?
>

Excellent! If you could read in my mind you would find exactly that 
reasoning!

Please commit this, and I will finish cleaning up 
22_locale/money_*_members.cc, as agreed, in the next few days.

Thanks!
Paolo.

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