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

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:05:57AM -0400, J. Johnston wrote:
>egor duda wrote:
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Thursday, 29 August, 2002 Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com wrote:
>> 
>> CF> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:58:47PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>> >>>>> 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.
>> 
>> CF> Is it not doing that?  AFAICT, that's how it works.
>> 
>> It returns "C" for all categories except LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES.
>> For setlocale (LC_CTYPE, ""), it gets to newlib/libc/locale/locale.c:155
>> and returns NULL.
>> 
>
>This is wrong.  I will fix this.

Any plans to make setlocale honor environment variables, Jeff?

cgf