Re: /cygwin-patches/ Add locale.exe option for querying Windows UI languages
Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote in
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Therefore, afaics, it would be better if we change locale to use the
GetFooDefaultUILanguage functions by default, and we add a modifier
(-r/--region?) to switch to LOCALE_FOO_DEFAULT.
Please, could locale follow what is standard and/or usual, that is "
write information about the current locale environment "
how a cygwin-native a program sees it. Cygwin-native =
ported-from-unix.
" When invoked without arguments, locale summarizes the current
locale environment for each locale category defined by the LC_*
environment variables.
" (man locale on Linux)
I use
ENVIR=value locale
(on Unixes) to find out what locale setting will recieve-and-use any
Program if I call it with
ENVIR=value Program
That is, I expect locale.exe (without options) to show how standard
libraries interpret current LOCALE(7) setting, that is what setting is
obtained from current settings in environment and files.
For example
$ uname
Linux
$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US" ...
# I am not happy now
$ export LC_ALL=cs_CZ
$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="cs_CZ"
LC_NUMERIC="cs_CZ"
LC_TIME="cs_CZ"
LC_COLLATE="cs_CZ" ...
# Am I happy now?
Thank you
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