LOCALE ERROR

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Marcelo Rezende Módolo wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a program that needs the locale support, so I include 'locale.h'.
> I make the program but the output was wrong.
> With the cygwin library the setlocale function do not work, but if I
> link with mingw library it is ok I am sending a sample program that
> demonstrate the error.
>
> Linking with CYGWIN:
>     marcelo@est01 /usr/src/testes/locale/msdn
>     $ gcc -o crt_locale crt_locale.c
>     marcelo@est01 /usr/src/testes/locale/msdn
>     $
>     $ ./crt_locale.exe
>     In German locale, strftime returns 'x'
>     No Brasil locale, strftime retorna 'x'
>     In 'C' locale, strftime returns 'x'
>     marcelo@est01 /usr/src/testes/locale/msdn
>     $
>
> Linking with MINGW (-mno-cygwin)
>     marcelo@est01 /usr/src/testes/locale/msdn
>     $ gcc -mno-cygwin -o crt_locale crt_locale.c
>     marcelo@est01 /usr/src/testes/locale/msdn
>     $
>     $ ./crt_locale.exe
>     In German locale, strftime returns 'Sonntag, 07. Dezember 2003'
>     No Brasil locale, strftime retorna 'domingo, 07 de dezembro de 2003'
>     In 'C' locale, strftime returns 'Sunday, December 07, 2003'
>     marcelo@est01 /usr/src/testes/locale/msdn
>     $
>
> Thanks,
> Marcelo Modolo

"man setlocale", "man strftime".
	Igor
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