locale

[Jan Kolar]

Re: /cygwin-patches/ Add locale.exe option for querying Windows UI languages
> Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote in
> h t t p : old nabble com  Add-locale.exe-option-for-querying-Windows-UI-languages-to32614984.html
>
> Therefore, afaics, it would be better if we change locale to use the
> GetFooDefaultUILanguage functions by default, and we add a modifier
> (-r/--region?) to switch to LOCALE_FOO_DEFAULT.
>

Please, could locale follow what is standard and/or usual, that is " 
     write information about the current locale environment   "
how a cygwin-native a program sees it.  Cygwin-native =
ported-from-unix.

"       When invoked without arguments, locale summarizes the current
locale environment for each locale category defined  by the LC_*
environment variables.
" (man locale  on  Linux)


I use
    ENVIR=value   locale
(on Unixes) to find out what locale setting will recieve-and-use any
Program if I call it with
    ENVIR=value   Program

That is, I expect  locale.exe (without options) to show how standard
libraries interpret current LOCALE(7) setting, that is what setting is
obtained from current settings in environment and files.

For example

$ uname
Linux

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US" ...

# I am not happy now

$ export LC_ALL=cs_CZ

$  locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="cs_CZ"
LC_NUMERIC="cs_CZ"
LC_TIME="cs_CZ"
LC_COLLATE="cs_CZ" ...

# Am I happy now?



Thank you

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