Re: [PATCH] send-email: Use setlocale in addition to $ENV{LC_ALL} to set locale

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 21, 2006, 10:33 UTC
Message-ID: <e7b796$lj$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <11508811631669-git-send-email-jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski wrote:

> $ENV{LC_ALL} = 'C'; does not change locale used by strftime.
> Use setlocale( LC_ALL, 'C' ); instead.

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>  # most mail servers generate the Date: header, but not all...
>  $ENV{LC_ALL} = 'C';
> -use POSIX qw/strftime/;
> +use POSIX qw/strftime setlocale LC_ALL/;
> +setlocale( &LC_ALL, 'C' );

Perhaps instead of 
  setlocale( &LC_ALL, 'C' );
we should use
  setlocale( &LC_ALL, '' );
(i.e. set the LC_ALL behaviour according to the locale environment
variables). I'm not that versed in locale, POSIX and Perl.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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