Re: [GENERAL] trouble with to_char('L')

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Takahiro Itagaki wrote:
>> Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
>>
>>> Revised patch attached. Please test it.
>> I applied this version of the patch.
>> Please check wheter the bug is fixed and any buildfarm failures.
>
> Great. I have merged in my C comments into the code with the attached
> patch so we remember why the code is setup as it is.
>
> One thing I am confused about is that, for Win32, our numeric/monetary
> handling sets lc_ctype to match numeric/monetary, while our time code in
> the same file uses that method _and_ uses wcsftime() to return the value
> in wide characters. So, why do we do both for time? Is there any value
> to that?

Unfortunately wcsftime() is a halfway conveniece function which uses
ANSI version of functionalities internally.
AFAIC the only way to remove the dependency to LC_CTYPE is to call
GeLocaleInfoW() directly.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue