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Re: No locale tool
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 06:39:15 -0700
- Subject: Re: No locale tool
- References: <cuvgns$8d3$1@sea.gmane.org>
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According to artem_ave on 2/16/2005 6:12 AM:
> Hi!
>
> I've installed Cygwin recently. I don't know how to set locale. There is no
> locale tool available.
Newlib (cygwin's underlying C library) does not really support locales; it
is hard-wired to the "C"/"POSIX" locale. So even if there were a locale
tool, it would be pretty boring. But since POSIX requires locale(1) and
localedef(1) as utilities, it would be nice if somebody contributed them.
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC
Gettext and libintl help in some regards, such as LC_MESSAGES, although I
can't say that I have any experience with using that part of i18n
(unfortunately, since English is my native language, I am already all too
comfortable with the "C" locale).
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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