Re: texinfo-7.2.90 on OpenBSD
Bruno Haible via Bug reports for the GNU Texinfo documentation system <[email protected]>
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Eli Zaretskii wrote on 2026-01-13: > And could you please explain why this "must" is true: > > > The reason why it does not work is that this program is not following > > the documented requirement from > > https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/C.html : > > "Programmer must call setlocale (LC_ALL, "")" > > What's wrong with calling setlocale with second argument other than > the empty string? This way of doing things works only on some platforms, not on all platforms. For the (complicated) reasons, see the comment re HAVE_LOCALE_NULL in gnulib/lib/localename-unsafe.c. Bruno