perl giving setlocale failures with recent cygwin's, Egor please comment?

[Kazuhiro Fujieda]

>>> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:56:52 +0400
>>> egor duda <deo@logos-m.ru> said:

> Yes, it's definitely so. Previously, setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "") was
> returning "C", while now, in MB_CAPABLE configuration, it returns NULL.
> 
> I'm not sure whether it's better to fix it in newlib or in perl, though.

setlocale(category, "") commonly returns "C" when any relevant
environment variables aren't set. The MB_CAPABLE version of
setlocale should be fixed.
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