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Bug #2415

Updated by tuxillo over 10 years ago

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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