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Re: LANGUAGE handling
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: LANGUAGE handling
- From: Bruno Haible <haible at ilog dot fr>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 19:16:17 +0100 (CET)
- References: <m3vgrxw9l6.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com>
Ulrich Drepper writes:
> I've just applied a patch which changes the handling of the LANGUAGE
> environment variable. It's value is now ignored if the locale used in
> the gettext call is "C". This will avoid the problems some people saw
> with charset conversion and transliteration happening if the program
> is not ready (means, did not call setlocale).
Thanks. This not only fixes the problem; it also teaches programmers
to use setlocale() if they want LANGUAGE to be obeyed.
> This was the last patch on my list. I'll make today or tomorrow a
> first test release for 2.2.1. If you have anything left which should
> be in 2.2.1 let me know soon.
Yes, I have a critical fix for an ngettext() core dump.
Bruno