Call setlocale("") , not "C", if we want to set the default one

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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Denys Vlasenko 2013-07-07 14:41:58 +02:00
parent 2301d127a2
commit d8f6d8c627

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@ -28,8 +28,19 @@ void FAST_FUNC reinit_unicode(const char *LANG)
static const char unicode_0x394[] = { 0xce, 0x94, 0 };
size_t width;
/* We pass "" instead of "C" because some libc's have
* non-ASCII default locale for setlocale("") call
* (this allows users of such libc to have Unicoded
* system without having to mess with env).
*
* We set LC_CTYPE because (a) we may be called with $LC_CTYPE
* value in LANG, not with $LC_ALL, (b) internationalized
* LC_NUMERIC and LC_TIME are more PITA than benefit
* (for one, some utilities have hard time with comma
* used as a fractional separator).
*/
//TODO: avoid repeated calls by caching last string?
setlocale(LC_ALL, (LANG && LANG[0]) ? LANG : "C");
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, LANG ? LANG : "");
/* In unicode, this is a one character string */
// can use unicode_strlen(string) too, but otherwise unicode_strlen() is unused
@ -42,8 +53,6 @@ void FAST_FUNC init_unicode(void)
/* Some people set only $LC_CTYPE, not $LC_ALL, because they want
* only Unicode to be activated on their system, not the whole
* shebang of wrong decimal points, strange date formats and so on.
*
* TODO? Maybe we should use LC_CTYPE instead of LC_ALL in setlocale()?
*/
if (unicode_status == UNICODE_UNKNOWN) {
char *s = getenv("LC_ALL");