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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/setlocale.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/setlocale.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee4d477 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/setlocale.texi @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +@node setlocale +@section @code{setlocale} +@findex setlocale + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/setlocale.html} + +Gnulib module: setlocale + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), @code{setlocale(@var{category},NULL)} +ignores the environment variables @code{LC_ALL}, @code{@var{category}}, and +@code{LANG}. +@item +On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin) and Cygwin 1.5.x, +@code{setlocale(LC_ALL,@var{name})} succeeds and sets the LC_CTYPE category to +@samp{C} when it does not support the encoding, instead of failing. +@item +On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), @code{setlocale} understands different +locale names, that are not based on ISO 639 language names and ISO 3166 country +names. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +On Cygwin 1.5.x, which doesn't have locales, +@code{setlocale(LC_ALL,NULL)} always returns @code{"C"}. +@item +On Cygwin 1.7.0, only the charset portion of a locale designation is honored. +@end itemize |