On 2019-01-09 12:43, Lee wrote: > On 1/9/19, Douglas Coup wrote: >> >> On 1/9/2019 1:14 PM, Lee wrote: >>> On 1/9/19, JonY wrote: >>>> On 1/8/19 9:26 PM, Lee wrote: >>>>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/locale.h.html >>>>> has a note for LC_MESSAGES: >>>>> The functionality described is an extension to the ISO C standard. >>>>> Application developers may make use of an extension as it is >>>>> supported on all POSIX.1-2017-conforming systems. >>>>> i686-w64-mingw32-gcc doesn't have LC_MESSAGES defined. >>>>> Is that an oversight, something missing in windows, or .. ?? >>>> Windows MSVCR isn't POSIX nor ISO C compliant, so you shouldn't be >>>> referring to opengroups, only against MSDN. >>> What's a Windows MSVCR? >>> Since the same program compiled with cygwins' gcc has LC_MESSAGES >>> defined, I was guessing it was just a library thing and maybe it just >>> hadn't been implemented in the mingw libraries yet.. but it sounds >>> like it's not an oversight & Microsoft needs to support LC_MESSAGES >>> before i686-w64-mingw32-gcc will. Is that about right? >> MSVCR = MicroSoft Visual C Run-time (I think) > Meaning i686-w64-mingw32-gcc uses the Microsoft libraries vs. cygwin > gcc using posix compliant libraries? Implying LC_MESSAGES not being > defined is yet another instance of Microsoft not following accepted > standards? > The background for my question is > https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/770 > Tidy removed the setlocale call from the library init function, so if > users want a specific locale/language they're going to have to set it > up themselves. > I'd like to update the tidylib example code showing how to set the language, > but > setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); > tidySetLanguage( setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, NULL) ); > probably isn't a good example if LC_MESSAGES is missing on some systems.
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