Hi,

Thomas Dickey wrote on Fri, May 01, 2020 at 05:58:45PM -0400:

> But to make it work, you'd have to have a workable LC_CTYPE locale.
> Since it's not a prepackaged locale, you'd have to find some more
> extensive documentation for mklocale.

I doubt that mklocale(1) still does anything useful for non-UTF-8
locales.  Even if it still prodcues some kind of output for legacy
input files, which i don't think anybody has tried for half a decade
now, neither the OpenBSD C library nor the OpenBSD userland at large
supports using such files.  Trying to set a non-UTF-8 loacle, even
if you put all the legacy files back into where they used to be, will
only result in using the POSIX locale instead.

> This looks like a place to start:
> 
> http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/Remove-build-machinery-for-non-UTF-8-charsets-td291943.html

Very misleading.  That was only about cleaning up old cruft because
it no longer had any effect at that point.

What you recommend is akin to telling people to get new coal for
their locomotive many years after the steam engine has been replaced
by an electrical engine.

Yours,
  Ingo

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