Re: Bug#175370: A reliable way to get LC_CTYPE encoding
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 09:34:45AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 07:31:42AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:40:45PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > FWIW, I did some research into nl_langinfo() for an upstream recently,
> > > and found that it's implemented on at least these platforms:
> > >
> > > Linux (glibc)
> > > FreeBSD
> > > NetBSD
> > > Solaris
> > > AIX
>
> > Hmm, groff needed a patch not all that long ago because Debian
> > GNU/NetBSD didn't have nl_langinfo(CHARSET). Maybe it's a recent
^^^^^^^ I meant CODESET ...
> > addition.
>
> According to NetBSD's own on-line manpages (I've misplaced the URL ATM),
> they've supported it since 1994. Perhaps it's implemented but buggy?
Bug #130356 prompted the change to groff. The BSD list may know more.
> Is Debian GNU/NetBSD using the same libc that NetBSD uses?
Yep.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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