Re: cygwin started speaking German today

[Erwin Waterlander <waterlan@xs4all.nl>]

Op 4-10-2011 20:20, Corinna Vinschen schreef:
> On Oct  4 20:03, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen schreef, Op 4-10-2011 16:29:
>>> Does it? Even if I'm running a german OS, I absolutely hate to see
>>> german diagnostic output from gcc, and I absolutely hate certain
>>> programs using non-ASCII chars in output. (In)famous examples are
>>> Unicode quoting chars rather than ' or ", or using the Unicode
>>> hyphen character rather than -. But that's just me.
>> You got used to ASCII, like all the old-timers... ;)
>> export LANG=C is your solution.
>>
>> By the way, I noticed that with the default locale C.UTF-8 the
>> nl_langinfo(CODESET) C function<langinfo.h>  returns wrongly
>> "ISO-8859-1",
> Not for me:
>
>    $ cat>  setl.c<<EOF
>    #include<stdio.h>
>    #include<locale.h>
>    #include<langinfo.h>
>
>    int main(int argc, char **argv)
>    {
>      char *loc;
>      if (argc>  1)
>        loc = setlocale (LC_ALL, argv[1]);
>      else
>        loc = setlocale (LC_CTYPE, NULL);
>      printf ("locale: %s charset: %s\n", loc, nl_langinfo (CODESET));
>      return 0;
>    }
>    EOF
>    $ gcc -o setl setl.c
>    $ ./setl
>    locale: C charset: ANSI_X3.4-1968
>    $ ./setl C
>    locale: C charset: ANSI_X3.4-1968
>    $ ./setl C.utf8
>    locale: C.utf8 charset: UTF-8
>    $ ./setl C.UTF-8
>    locale: C.UTF-8 charset: UTF-8
>
>
> Corinna
>
Hi,

My program (wcd) uses gettext/libintl. Libintl is causing the effect. 
Libintl is not working properly with a locale C.UTF-8. That is a serious 
problem.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <langinfo.h>
#include <libintl.h>

   int main(int argc, char **argv)
   {
     char *loc;
     if (argc > 1)
       loc = setlocale (LC_ALL, argv[1]);
     else
       loc = setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "");
      bindtextdomain("setl","/usr/share/locale");
      textdomain("setl");
     printf ("locale: %s charset: %s\n", loc, nl_langinfo (CODESET));
     return 0;
   }

waterlan@erwin2 ~/tmp
$ gcc -o setl setl.c -lintl

waterlan@erwin2 ~/tmp
$ echo $LANG
C.UTF-8

waterlan@erwin2 ~/tmp
$ ./setl
locale: en_US charset: ISO-8859-1

waterlan@erwin2 ~/tmp
$ locale
LANG=C.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="C.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="C.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="C.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

waterlan@erwin2 ~/tmp
$ export LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8

waterlan@erwin2 ~/tmp
$ ./setl
locale: nl_NL.UTF-8 charset: UTF-8

waterlan@erwin2 ~/tmp
$ locale
LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="nl_NL.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="nl_NL.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="nl_NL.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="nl_NL.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="nl_NL.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="nl_NL.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=


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