Documenting composite LC_ALL locale, anyone?

Andrey Chernov ache at nagual.pp.ru
Sun Feb 1 13:07:21 UTC 2004


On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 02:55:23PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> This format is easy to generate when querying the locale with
> setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL), but when setting the locale it becomes
> very user-unfriendly.

This string can't be used to _set_ locale according to POSIX, only to 
save/restore it. To set locale, separate setlocale() calls must be 
used instead, so no user-friedling needed here.

-- 
Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/
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