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Re: test-localename mingw failure?
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: test-localename mingw failure? |
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Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:44:56 +0100 |
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Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> It would be nice to be able to support uselocale and newlocale on all
> platforms, but it is unrealistic: The support code would be huge, because it
> would have to override every function that is locale dependent in some sense.
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> Therefore, on platforms where the system does not provide newlocale, we cannot
> do it. It makes no sense to define LC_CTYPE_MASK in <locale.h> then, because
> the only use of these macros is as argument to newlocale().
Makes sense to me, thanks.
/Simon