Hello, Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes:
> On Tue 12 Jan 2010 12:25, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: >> >>> perhaps we should setlocale in the `guile' binary (but not by default >>> when used by a library). >> >> We could, but it would break programs that have been assuming the ‘C’ >> locale, e.g., when parsing of printing data, etc... > > But surely it is the Right Thing; Perhaps, I don’t know. Apparently Perl does that, for instance. What do others do? Is there no real reason for POSIX to be this way, other than backward compatibility? > is there no way to make a transition to having it there by default? Not that I can think of. Thanks, Ludo’.
