On 1/9/19 7:43 PM, Lee wrote:
>> MSVCR = MicroSoft Visual C Run-time (I think)
> 

Yes, as implemented by msvcrt.dll.

> Meaning i686-w64-mingw32-gcc uses the Microsoft libraries vs. cygwin
> gcc using posix compliant libraries?  Implying LC_MESSAGES not being
> defined is yet another instance of Microsoft not following accepted
> standards?
> 

Cygwin has its own runtime, Windows has its own. Microsoft does whatever
it well pleases, it never did claim POSIX or ISO C compliance.

See the printf/scanf hacks in mingw.

> The background for my question is https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/770
> Tidy removed the setlocale call from the library init function, so if
> users want a specific locale/language they're going to have to set it
> up themselves.
> I'd like to update the tidylib example code showing how to set the language, but
>   setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
>   tidySetLanguage( setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, NULL) );
> probably isn't a good example if LC_MESSAGES is missing on some systems.
> 
> Thanks
> Lee
> 

Unfortunately, I don't know how that should be implemented on top of a
proprietary runtime layer, or any alternative function calls for that
matter.