gcc4[1.7] printf treats differently a string constant and a character array

[Rodrigo Medina]

>2009/12/28 Andy Koppe:
>...
>Ah, the problem actually is that your program is missing a call to
>setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") to switch to the locale and character set
>specified in the environment...

That worked!, but what that means is that if one wants to
use any locale other than C.UTF-8, one has, not only to compile again the
programs , but also to modify them. Perhaps the best thing to do
is to read the LC_ALL variable from the environment and then call
setlocale. 

Thanks
RM



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