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To:	egor duda <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: perl giving setlocale failures with recent cygwin's, Egor please comment?
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From:	Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
Date:	29 Aug 2002 22:58:47 +0900
In-Reply-To:	egor duda's message of Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:56:52 +0400
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>>> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:56:52 +0400
>>> egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT 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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