perror, gettext, question marks

[Mark Brown]

Chiaki Ishikawa wrote:
> 
> X-PMC-CI-e-mail-id: 14224
> 
> >> You can argue that all programs should call setlocale(LC_ALL,"") but this
> >> doesn't practically work because:
> >
> >And this is what has to happen.  There are many more possibilities how
> >you can shoot yourself in the foot by not setting the locales
> >correctly.  Either you don't use locales or you do it correctly.
> 
> I think it takes a little while before the general
> computing community, especially the programmers, begins
> handling these locale issues correctly.

I think that some of us get frustrated, in that setlocale() has been around
since at least 1992....

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