Re: new module 'setlocale'

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Eric,

> I'm now seeing this failure on Haiku alpha 2:
> 
> FAIL: test-setlocale2.sh (exit: 1)
> ==================================
> 
> setlocale did not fail for implicit ar_SA.ISO-8859-1
> 
> What can I do to help you diagnose the root cause and work around this
> issue?

It should be easy to trim down the test program, to something like this:

#include <locale.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h> 
#include <string.h>

int
main ()
{
  if (setlocale (LC_ALL, "ar_SA.ISO-8859-1") != NULL)
    {
      printf ("%s\n", setlocale (LC_ALL, NULL));
      printf ("%s\n", setlocale (LC_CTYPE, NULL));
    }
  return 0;
}

The next step is to get a list of the supported locales, either
through "locale -a" or by looking in system locations or in the source
code of the setlocale function.

From this step, infer whether the problem is that "ISO-8859-1" is not
supported as an encoding in general, or whether it's the combination of
Arabic and ISO-8859-1 that is not supported.

Then we should be able to report a bug to the Haiku people.

Bruno
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In memoriam Giordano Bruno <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno>