From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
Cc: | Postgresql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: setlocale |
Date: | 2003-10-08 17:38:30 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0310081929570.26413-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Andrew Dunstan writes:
> At program startup, the equivalent of the following statement is executed:
> setlocale( LC_ALL, "C" );
> Does this have any effect on us?
No, that is just a peculiar way to express that by default nothing
happens.
> Does it mean, as it appears to, that the locale will not be inherited
> from the parent?
A process never inherits the locale from the parent. It only inherits
environment variables, among which may be LC_ALL, etc. To activate any
kind of locale in a program you need to call
setlocale(LC_xxx, "something");
where "something" may be the name of the actual locale you want, or -- as
a special case -- it may be "", in which case it takes the value of the
respective environment variable LC_xxx.
There is an appearance of inheritance in shell scripts, but only because
the shell takes care of some of these things automatically.
> If so, I guess it could be got around by passing LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE
> arguments to postgres when running the bootstrap code.
The easiest solution would be to stick LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE into the
environment of the postgres process when you call it the first time (in
bootstrap mode). If no --lc-* options were given, you don't need to do
anything, because "postgres" will just take what's in the environment. If
--lc-* options where given, you could use putenv().
> Another question - will we want to internationalize initdb
Yes, but that should really wait until we have a working C version first.
--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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