Re: LC_MESSAGES and BSD/OS

OK, I have put #ifdef around the LC_MESSAGES to BSDI will work with
locale. Thanks.

> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > OK, I am willing to make them #ifdef'ed, if someone would explain what
> > LC_MESSAGES is used for.
>
> The HPUX locale man pages say:
>
> LC_CTYPE determines the interpretation of text as single and/or
> multi-byte characters, the classification of characters as printable,
> and the characters matched by character class expressions in regular
> expressions.
>
> LC_COLLATE provides collation sequence definition
> for relative ordering between collating elements (single- and
> multi-character collating elements) in the locale.
>
> LC_MESSAGES determines the locale that should be used to affect the
> format and content of diagnostic messages written to standard error,
> and informative messages written to standard output.
>
> LC_MONETARY defines the rules and symbols used to
> format monetary numeric information.
>
> LC_NUMERIC defines rules and symbols used to format
> non-monetary numeric information.
>
> LC_TIME defines the rules for generating locale-specific formatted
> date strings.
>
> LC_ALL, when set to a non-empty string value, overrides the values of
> all other internationalization variables.
>
> Dunno which LC_foo variable corresponds to LC_MESSAGES on BSDI.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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