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Re: setlocale() and gettext() (Re: CVS dpkg flaws)



Previously Fumitoshi UKAI wrote:
> setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C") breaks gettext() encoding conversion features.
> Wichert, why did you add this?

ChangeLog says:

Mon Jul 16 15:20:07 CEST 2001 Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>

  * main/main.c, main/query,c. dselect/main.cc: use C locale for LC_CTYPE
    so we can be sure packagename and version comparisons work as expected

Why would setting LC_CTYPE break output routines?

Wichert.

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