hi,

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:

 JS> I am currently writing several programs that, for one reason or another, 
 JS> need to be localized in various sections.  On Solaris, I can see what 
 JS> choices I have by running 'locale -a'.  However, all my attempts to find a 
 JS> similar function on FreeBSD 3.4 have failed.

ls -l /usr/share/locale

 JS> I would have searched the mailing list archives, but they are, of course, 
 JS> currently down.  Also, my search through the handbook also only showed 
 JS> examples for Russian and German encoding (section 12).

 JS> For my specific problem, I need access to the following three character 
 JS> sets:

 JS> es_ES.ISO8859-1
es_ES.ISO_8859-1

 JS> pt.PT.ISO8859-1
pt_PT.ISO_8859-1

 JS> en_US.ISO8859-1
en_US.ISO_8859-1

 JS> And within my program (Perl), I need to use the setlocale() function 
 JS> imported from the POSIX module (actually, from the locale_h header file).  
 JS> If I run this on FreeBSD, will the program die on me due to the apparent 
 JS> lack of a locale function?  If one is available, where can I get it from?  

I just checked -- localhe.h is present in /usr/include directory.

 JS> And finally, if these character sets are not installed on my system, what is 
 JS> the best way to go about getting them on there?  Any help or insight would 
 JS> be appreciated, so thanks!


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