On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote: > the original poster was just offering a band aid not a real solution. please > keep that in mind before you crucify him.
I know. My point is that the bandaid is likely causing more trouble than just waiting for the real solution to appear. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 4, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Irek Szczesniak <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Alex Caudill <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:46 AM, James Carlson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> On 11/04/12 09:06, Irek Szczesniak wrote: >>>>> This is useless because you still do not have newlocale(), duplocale() >>>>> or uselocale() which create or use the locale_t object. >>>> >>>> Those can be dummied out as well. >>> >>> For example: >>> >>> http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/locale/duplocale.c >>> http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/locale/freelocale.c >>> http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/locale/newlocale.c >>> http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/locale/setlocale.c >>> >>> I'm actually using this code nearly verbatim on OpenIndiana. >>> >>>> >>>>> The point of the new apis is that you can have an unlimited number of >>>>> locale_t objects, all with different properties. As side effect >>>>> different threads can use different locale_t objects, giving threads >>>>> the ability to run in different locales. But this feature is NOT >>>>> limited to per-thread locales as some people may think. >>>> >>>> I think the underlying point that the previous poster was making was >>>> that for a significant number of users, the desktop environment is >>>> launched with the per-process locale set correctly, and the user happily >>>> spends all of his time in that single locale. Being able to switch >>>> locales on a thread-by-thread basis is certainly nifty, and is perhaps >>>> useful in some service providing scenarios (e.g., a web server), but >>>> it's quite unclear at least to me how it'd be very much helpful to build >>>> a window manager. Perhaps there are multi-lingual people who really do >>>> need to have a window manager that can decorate each window differently >>>> ... but really? >>> >>> I just wanted to share an approach for Getting This Stuff To Work(TM). >> >> How is this going to work when do run in one locale and do >> towctrans_l() in a different locale? Or use the collation order of >> de_DE.UTF-8 while the main locale is en_US.UTF-8? There are so many >> cases where this is going to fail or going to introduce subtle, stupid >> or plain dataloss bugs that it hurts. >> >> Irek >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> illumos-developer >> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/=now >> RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182179/21239177-6ce4c888 >> Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-developer > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182179/21175106-197fca96 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175106&id_secret=21175106-3d886b59 > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com Irek _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
