Re: [bug-gawk] Using ENVIRON["LANG"] = "C" instead of --characters-as-bytes

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:47:17PM +0100, Hermann Peifer wrote:
> On 2015-03-12 21:32, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> >By contrast, in your example the variable is set after Gawk already
> >started, so nothing guarantees 'setlocale' will be called.
> >
> 
> Thanks for your explanations. I see that my expectations were wrong.

Note that there are a couple of ways to achieve your desired behavior:

1. Create a shared library extension to provide access to the setlocale
function

2. One could imagine patching str_array.c:env_{clear,remove,store} to trigger a
call to setlocale when the LC_* values are changed.

I suspect that #1 is the better approach...

Regards,
Andy