newlocale: Linux incompatibility

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sat Mar 25 21:26:27 GMT 2023


On Mar 25 13:03, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
> On 2023-03-25 05:49, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> It looks like /proc/locales contains the same content as produced by locale -a?

Yes, locale -a actually opens /proc/locales to read the locales from the
Cygwin core, just as it opens /proc/codesets to implement locale -m.
The idea was to have these definitions collected inside the DLL instead
of having to duplicate code in an external tool.


Corinna


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