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Re: bad side-effects of new locale design
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: bad side-effects of new locale design
- From: Stanislav Meduna <stano at trillian dot eunet dot sk>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 100 11:47:01 +0100 (METDST)
Hello,
> Fix them, you have the sources code. The earlier you
> start the sooner programs are fixed.
Well - I can fix what I use / know of. The user base which
will be most affected with this change is generally unable
to figure what went wrong and where the problem is :-(
> > If there is any possibility for the old behaviour
> > (even as non-default setting or some workaround),
> > I would like to see it there.
>
> Set the envvar OUTPUT_CHARSET to whatever you want.
OK, that's what I wanted to hear. When there is an
easy workaround we can suggest the users to use
until the apps are fixed, I see no problem here.
Thanks
--
Stano