On May 4 07:04, Andy Koppe wrote: > Hi, > > I stumbled across an issues with locale initialization when the "C" > locale is specified in the environment. > [...] > The attached small patch addresses this by starting with the LC_CTYPE > locale set to "C.UTF-8" and lc_ctype_charset set accordingly too. > This means that setting the "C" locale is recognised as a change and > that the conversion function pointers are updated accordingly. It also > has the happy side effect that the setlocale call from > initial_setlocale() will be short-circuited if the default "C.UTF-8" > locale has not been overridden in the environment. > > Additionally, I think it's time to drop the "temporarily" #if 0'd code > for making UTF-8 the charset for the "C" locale. > > It's a newlib patch, but it's entirely Cygwin-specific, so it seemed > more appropriate to send it here. > > * libc/locale/locale.c [__CYGWIN__] > (current_categories, lc_ctype_charset): Start with the LC_CTYPE locale > set to "C.UTF-8", to match initial __wctomb and __mbtowc settings. > (lc_message_charset, loadlocale): Settle on ASCII as the "C" charset.
Thanks, applied with a slightly different ChangeLog entry. Please send newlib patches to the newlib list, not to cygwin-patches. It's the better place for bookkeeping of newlib stuff, even if it only affects Cygwin. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
