Re: /tset/ANSI.os/locale/setlocale/T.setlocale

[Andrew Josey <ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org>]

hi Matt
We can see how this might be interpreted in the way you state,
although for 13 years implementations have returned "" in this
case. We are looking back at the old specifications (back to XPG3) for
clarification, and will need to raise this with the working
groups.

So I would not classify this as a confirmed test bug at the moment,
probably a specification grey area.

regards
Andrew

On Mar 14,  5:39pm in "/tset/ANSI.os/locale", Matt Wilson wrote:
> http://www.freestandards.org/lsb/test/results/index.php?testcaseid=1684 
> 
> I think this is a test suite bug.  The currency symbol for the POSIX
> locale is "".  nl_langinfo(CRNCYSTR) returns (per POSIX.1-2001):
> 
>        CRNCYSTR (LC_MONETARY)
>               Return  the currency symbol, preceded by "-" if the
>               symbol should appear before the value, "+"  if  the
>               symbol should appear after the value, or "." if the
>               symbol should replace the radix character.
> 
> Thus the result under latest glibc is '-'.
> 
> Does anyone know of any standard clarification that says that if there
> is no currency symbol that the prefix should not be added if there is
> no currency symbol?
> 
> Cheers,
>