On 9 October 2011 11:37, Jan Kolar wrote: > > Re: /cygwin-patches/ Add locale.exe option for querying Windows UI languages >> >> Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote in >> h t t p : old nabble com >> Add-locale.exe-option-for-querying-Windows-UI-languages-to32614984.html >> >> 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" ...
It already does that. This thread is about additional Cygwin-specific functionality. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
