On 9/14/12 4:48 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> The sheer number of threads we've got complaining about >> locale-dependent [a-c] suggests to me that the software should be >> changed to just do what people expect, especially since nothing is >> really lost by doing so. > > I know that some projects are doing just that. I don't know the plans > for bash. I would like to see it addressed in libc so that it would > be uniform across all projects. But that isn't likely to happen. But > if libc isn't going to do it then it is beneficial if projects do it > themselves outside of libc. Eventually in the future when libc > addresses the problem then those hacks can be removed.
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