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Re: locale support?

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at ?owga?.com> May 05, 2008
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Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, locale support now works on Windows and Linux. Please see my problem at
> > the end of this message.
> 
> I notice some oddities about locale.e that were probably left in by
> mistake.  For instance, your platform error message references IUp.

Ops! That's what you get for copy/paste to saving time  I've corrected it in
my copy. It'll be in my next commit.

> Also, the setlocale and strftime imports aren't within the LINUX/BSD
> platform guards.

They are the same function on both Windows and Unix systems.

> 
> More on topic, I thought Windows used LCIDs, which are numbers, rather than
> strings, to denote specific locales.
> 

The setlocale function works the same in Windows as in Linux, it just takes
different Locale names. I am no locale expert, but that's what I understand from
the docs.

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Jeremy Cowgar
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