2010/1/4 Joseph Quinsey: > 1) In my bad test, I already had my LOCALE set to C.ASCII: > > env | grep LC > LC_ALL=C.ASCII
To use the locale set in the environment you need to invoke setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""), i.e. with an empty string as the second parameter. Without a setlocale call, your program will use the initial locale: "C". > And this setting generates a nuisance > message "locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C" whenever I start > nedit. Yep, unfortunately X has its own ideas of what valid locales are, independent of Cygwin's. Therefore you should set a locale with an actual language, e.g. "en_US.ISO-8859-1". (X probably won't accept the .ASCII either.) > And $LANG is ASCII, if this matters. That's an invalid setting, i.e. it should be in the same "language.charset" format. But it doesn't matter because LC_ALL takes priority. > 2) The call setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "C") did not work, although it returns its > second argument. That's because the "C" locale is what's already selected at program startup. > 3) The call setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "POSIX") also did not work. It happens to > return "C". "POSIX" is just a synonym for "C". > The above behaviour seems to disagree with the man page. Which man page? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
