Re: setlocale() issue on Windows with UTF-8

[Lasse Collin]

On 2024-12-25 Bruno Haible wrote:
> Lasse Collin wrote:
> > I haven't learned yet how to produce a distribution tarball from
> > gettext.git but I didn't try for many minutes either. I ran
> > autogen.sh successfully etc. but, for some some reason I don't
> > understand, "make dist" wants to build the package first and then
> > it fails because I didn't install ppcx64.  
> 
> The INSTALL file refers to the HACKING file for this situation, and
> the HACKING file has the (long) list of prerequisites.

I had noticed it, it's a nice and detailed file. :-) The only surprise
was that "make dist" wants to build even the example programs and thus
"make dist" needs a Pascal compiler. I could have installed it but now
I have figured out that omitting hello-pascal works too for local
testing purposes.

> But there's a shortcut:
>   - You can download a snapshot tarball from the
>     GitLab CI, if you have a GitLab account. Today the link is
>     https://gitlab.com/gnu-gettext/ci-distcheck/-/jobs/8714519943
>     click "Download", and in the downloaded artifacts there is a
>     gettext-snapshot.tar.
>   - Similarly there is a snapshot tarball at the GitHub CI. Today
>     the link is
>     https://github.com/gnu-gettext/ci-check/actions/runs/12493509240
>     click on "tarball".

Thanks!

> > This might not matter but I mention it just in case. Your sample
> > outputs *before* the fix were different than I expected:
> > 
> >   - I got "fi_FI" with unmodified gettext 0.22.5 when not in UTF-8
> >     mode. "en_US" would be fine too. I don't understand how the old
> >     gettext could produce "C" on native Windows.  
> 
> Different Windows installations sometimes operate differently.
> I wouldn't be surprised if the difference is hidden in the registry...

Oh well... I suppose I shouldn't be surprised about such things.
At least the differing results weren't due to a basic thing like
missing mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gcc package which provides
/ucrt64/bin/gcc.

-- 
Lasse Collin