Re: ICU default locale and setlocale

I believe your request is related to this jitterbug 
http://www.jtcsv.com/cgibin/icu-bugs/?findid=2777

That is scheduled to be fixed in ICU 2.8.

George Rhoten
IBM Globalization Center of Competency/ICU  San Jose, CA, USA




"Zartaj T. Majeed" <[email protected]>
Sent by: [email protected]
07/16/2003 12:31 PM

 
        To:     "Icu" <[email protected]>
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        Subject:        ICU default locale and setlocale



The following applies to Unix and other systems providing
setlocale.
The ICU default locale seems to not take into account setlocale
calls in a program. The default locale remains whatever was in
effect the first time the default locale was set. I would like to
have the default locale reflect the program's current locale.

Also related is the behavior of ucnv_setDefaultName. It returns
the encoding associated with the default locale if that can be
determined; if not it returns the value of the LC_CTYPE
environment variable by doing setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").
The setlocale call should instead be setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL)
so that again the program's current locale is taken into account
and not the locale in effect when the program was launched.

Thanks,
Zartaj

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