Re: test-langinfo failures on Irix 5.3

[Tom G. Christensen]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:36:33AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Tom G. Christensen wrote:
> > I can see that the call to setlocale returns 'C', however that makes
> > gnulib nl_langinfo return "" since the dot = NULL case is not handled.
> > Would it not be okay to simply return the output from setlocale in this
> > case?
> 
> No, "C" is a locale name, but not an encoding name. The function could
> return "ASCII" or "ISO-8859-1" or "UTF-8", depending on what the system
> does / what the fonts of the usual programs display.

Ah I see, just a misunderstanding on my part.

> But IRIX 5.3 is so
> old, it does not make sense to start the investigation. For such an obsolete
> system, be happy that gnulib modules compile.
> 
I'm very happy with the support and I certainly did not mean to imply
otherwise.

-tgc