setlocale() for base system utilities

[Zhihao Yuan]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Xin Li <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
> I just noticed that many base system utilities, like rm, cat, etc.
> does not do setlocale() at beginning.  Is this intentional or just
> nobody have yet to done it?

Enabling locale in the non-wide-char-awared utilities only makes
difference for 8-bit locales, like ISO8859-*, but not multibyte
ones.  From a user's point of view, this is an inconsistency.

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