Re: LC_MESSAGES and BSD/OS

From: Giles Lean <giles(at)nemeton(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: LC_MESSAGES and BSD/OS
Date: 2000-06-28 18:43:26
Message-ID: 6900.962217806@nemeton.com.au
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> Locale does not work on BSD/OS because it does not have LC_MESSAGES. I
> just got this back from BSDI technical support. Comments?

...

| LC_MESSAGES is apparently an extension; it's not in the POSIX spec, and it's
| not in the C spec I have handy. (Admittedly, that's C99, but I don't think
| anything like this was removed since C89.) So, recommend you #ifdef that;
|
| #ifdef LC_MESSAGES
| ...[interact with LC_MESSAGES]
| #endif

POSIX and ANSI C have the following categories:

LC_ALL
LC_COLLATE
LC_CTYPE
LC_MONETARY
LC_NUMERIC
LC_TIME

"Implementation defined additional categories" are allowed, and it
looks like many (most?) implementations use LC_MESSAGES, but they
don't have to, I guess.

Regards,

Giles

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