Bug #2415
setlocale() for unknown locales
| Status: | New | Start date: | 08/30/2012 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | - | |||
| Target version: | - |
Description
The return value of setlocale() for LC_ALL deviates from implementations
found in FreeBSD, NetBSD, GNU libc and OpenSolaris. Other implementations
return NULL for unknown locales and the category LC_ALL, where instead
DragonflyBSD isresponding with the internal value list.
Thus an environment variable LC_ALL=fake produces
### setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
C/C/fake/fake/fake/C
### setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
(null)
The LC_ALL category is hiding the erroneous effect from the
invoking program, whereas the other categories are correctly
reporting their failures.
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