svn commit: r290637 - head/lib/libc/locale

[Andrey Chernov]

On 10.11.2015 16:04, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 03:48:52PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
>> On 10.11.2015 11:11, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>> Author: bapt
>>> Date: Tue Nov 10 08:11:27 2015
>>> New Revision: 290637
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/290637
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>   return "US-ASCII" instead of "POSIX" for "C" and "POSIX" locales
>>>   as it used to be in previous version of the locales. Returning
>>>   "POSIX" has too many fallouts.
>>
>> You can return "ANSI_X3.4-1968" (another name of "US-ASCII") to be
>> different with real US-ASCII. It is what glibc returns for C/POSIX
>> locale and most ports expected, being linux-oriented.
>>
> I thought about it, but in the end it is probably safer for now that nl_langinfo
> return US-ASCII as it did in the past, to reduce breakage with FreeBSD only code
> that maybe be existing ou there.

All FreeBSD code I know never check locale this way. IMHO probability of
potential danger to meet some linux-oriented port with this check is
much much higher than to meet similar FreeBSD only code in the wild. In
any case, changing collate order from A-Za-z to aA-zZ we do just now
have much higher probability to break unknown FreeBSD only code, so one
breaking change can go with other one together.

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