2009/3/20 Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl>: > In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said: >> > Personally I don't see the use of going this way. Why not simply use iconv? >> >> but that's just for char set conversion, how would we get the locale >> data (like time/date format, etc)? i guess we have no choice but to >> parse the definition files, then. > > Correct, it is apparantly libc itself, not iconv, but the point is if > clocale can, why not abstract it that way. > > Because the textmode versions might not be installed on all systems, the > compiled versions might be OS specific, and if they ever change for linux > distributions you have another problem at your hand. > > And IMHO it is not crucial enough to try to bypass libc.
i agree. my opinion has always been that since it's a libc invention in the first place , libc will always be available on systems with this locale information, so it's a lot easier just linking to libc and using nl_langinfo to set up the global variables in fpc. henry _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
