On 1/9/19, Brian Inglis wrote: > > On 2019-01-09 12:43, Lee wrote: >> On 1/9/19, Douglas Coup wrote: >>> >>> On 1/9/2019 1:14 PM, Lee wrote: >>>> On 1/9/19, JonY wrote: >>>>> On 1/8/19 9:26 PM, Lee wrote: >>>>>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/locale.h.html >>>>>> has a note for LC_MESSAGES: >>>>>> The functionality described is an extension to the ISO C standard. >>>>>> Application developers may make use of an extension as it is >>>>>> supported on all POSIX.1-2017-conforming systems. >>>>>> i686-w64-mingw32-gcc doesn't have LC_MESSAGES defined. >>>>>> Is that an oversight, something missing in windows, or .. ?? >>>>> Windows MSVCR isn't POSIX nor ISO C compliant, so you shouldn't be >>>>> referring to opengroups, only against MSDN. >>>> What's a Windows MSVCR? >>>> Since the same program compiled with cygwins' gcc has LC_MESSAGES >>>> defined, I was guessing it was just a library thing and maybe it just >>>> hadn't been implemented in the mingw libraries yet.. but it sounds >>>> like it's not an oversight & Microsoft needs to support LC_MESSAGES >>>> before i686-w64-mingw32-gcc will. Is that about right? >>> MSVCR = MicroSoft Visual C Run-time (I think) >> Meaning i686-w64-mingw32-gcc uses the Microsoft libraries vs. cygwin >> gcc using posix compliant libraries? Implying LC_MESSAGES not being >> defined is yet another instance of Microsoft not following accepted >> standards? >> The background for my question is >> https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/770 >> Tidy removed the setlocale call from the library init function, so if >> users want a specific locale/language they're going to have to set it >> up themselves. >> I'd like to update the tidylib example code showing how to set the >> language, but >> setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); >> tidySetLanguage( setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, NULL) ); >> probably isn't a good example if LC_MESSAGES is missing on some systems. > > You have to convert your messages to Windows message resources in your > build, then link and package Windows message resources with non-POSIX > compliant exes, or add a POSIX message implementation to your exes.
I'm just trying to come up with example code for how to set the locale & language in the tidylib documentation; thankfully, me building a native windows version of tidy isn't the goal.. I was just trying out code that worked under cygwin & was a bit surprised it wouldn't even compile for windows. But it seems to be a windows limitation, so [snip snarky comment] Regards, Lee -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple