trying to build dash: awk and sort bugs uncovered

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue Jan 2 23:32:40 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 02 January 2007 5:52 pm, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > What does this actually affect?  (I'm curious.  If we can foist locale 
support 
> > off on the C library with one or two lines, it's not necessarily bad to 
have 
> > it as a config option.  But what does it do, swap out strcmp() with a 
> > different implementation?)
> 
> doubles start printing comma (123,456), month names and perror messages
> are in selected language, date style also changes. Etc...

Translation: this is foisted off entirely upon the C library and we don't 
personally have to care?

I'm all for it...

Rob
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