bad side-effects of new locale design

[Geoff Keating]

> Date:  Wed, 6 Sep 100 08:43:11 +0100 (METDST)
> From: Stanislav Meduna <stano@trillian.eunet.sk>

> You are right that the program is broken and glibc is allowed
> to do what it does. Unfortunately, there is a ton of programs
> that don't bother to call setlocale, but the user wants to see
> localized messages at least from the glibc. The users
> _will_ be confused by this incompatibility and the problem
> will have no end in sight. 

One way to make that work is to call setlocale() from a shared
object initializer loaded with LD_PRELOAD.  Of course, this 
could break the application.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>