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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-12-31 16:19:13 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-12-31 16:19:13 +0000
commit8a4852225e5d282a2188e5d193a7e81b9749812e (patch)
treea28d8a3b60f9662ab0e48c8f58ec117c41ec3f02 /ext/I18N
parenta6e45062d7802a3c35e9edb488035c6f4b55b0ae (diff)
downloadperl-8a4852225e5d282a2188e5d193a7e81b9749812e.tar.gz
Slight comment tweakage.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@13984
Diffstat (limited to 'ext/I18N')
-rw-r--r--ext/I18N/Langinfo/Langinfo.t23
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/ext/I18N/Langinfo/Langinfo.t b/ext/I18N/Langinfo/Langinfo.t
index 7c6089acd3..2061b7cddc 100644
--- a/ext/I18N/Langinfo/Langinfo.t
+++ b/ext/I18N/Langinfo/Langinfo.t
@@ -20,17 +20,20 @@ setlocale(LC_ALL, $ENV{LC_ALL} = $ENV{LANG} = "C");
print "1..1\n"; # We loaded okay. That's about all we can hope for.
print "ok 1\n";
exit(0);
+
# Background: the langinfo() (in C known as nl_langinfo()) interface
-# is supposed a to be a portable way to fetch various language dependent
-# constants like "the first day of the week" or "the decimal separator".
-# Give a portable (numeric) constant, get back a language-specific string.
-# That's a comforting fantasy. Now tune in for blunt reality:
-# vendors seem to have implemented for those constants whatever they
-# felt like defining. The UNIX standard says that one should have
-# the RADIXCHAR constant for the decimal separator. Not so for many
-# Linux and BSD implementations. One should have the CODESET constant
-# for returning the current codeset (say, ISO 8859-1). Not so.
-# --jhi
+# is supposed to be a portable way to fetch various language/country
+# (locale) dependent constants like "the first day of the week" or
+# "the decimal separator". Give a portable (numeric) constant,
+# get back a language-specific string. That's a comforting fantasy.
+# Now tune in for blunt reality: vendors seem to have implemented for
+# those constants whatever they felt like implementing. The UNIX
+# standard says that one should have the RADIXCHAR constant for the
+# decimal separator. Not so for many Linux and BSD implementations.
+# One should have the CODESET constant for returning the current
+# codeset (say, ISO 8859-1). Not so. So let's give up any real
+# testing (leave the old testing code here for old times' sake,
+# though.) --jhi
my %want =
(