Re: More Norwegian trouble

On 01/16/2015 09:13 AM, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 04:37:37PM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> setlocale(LC_COLLATE, NULL) -> "Norwegian (Bokmål)_Norway"
>>
>> but:
>>
>> setlocale(LC_COLLATE, "norwegian-bokmal_Norway") -> "Norwegian_Norway")
>
>> Apparently the behavior changed when I upgraded the toolchain. IIRC, I used
>> to use "Microsoft Windows SDK 7.1", with "Microsoft Visual C++ Compilers
>> 2010 Standard Edition" that came with it. I'm now using "Microsoft Visual
>> Studio Community Edition 2013 Update 4", with "Microsoft Visual C++
>> Compilers 2010 SP Standard". I don't know what part of the upgrade broke
>> this. Could also have been something else; I don't keep track of my build
>> environment that carefully.
>
> MSVCR110 (Visual Studio 2012) locale handling departed significantly from that
> of its predecessors; see comments at IsoLocaleName().
>
>> Now, what should we do about this? I'd like to know if others are seeing
>> this, with whatever compiler versions you are using.
>
> VS2012 x64 behaves roughly as you describe:
>
> setlocale(LC_COLLATE, NULL) -> "Norwegian (Bokmål)_Norway"
> setlocale(LC_COLLATE, "norwegian-bokmal_Norway") -> "Norwegian_Norway.1252"
> setlocale(LC_COLLATE, "Norwegian_Norway") -> "Norwegian_Norway.1252"
> setlocale(LC_COLLATE, "Norwegian (Bokmål)_Norway") -> "Norwegian (Bokmål)_Norway"
>
> I see the traditional behavior with 64-bit MinGW-w64 (MSVCRT):
>
> setlocale(LC_COLLATE, NULL) -> "Norwegian (Bokmål)_Norway"
> setlocale(LC_COLLATE, "norwegian-bokmal_Norway") -> "Norwegian (Bokmål)_Norway"
> setlocale(LC_COLLATE, "Norwegian_Norway") -> "Norwegian (Bokmål)_Norway"
>
>> In particular, I wonder
>> if the builds included in the EnterpriseDB installers are experiencing this.
>
> I strongly suspect those builds use VS2012 for some of the newer branches, so
> they will be affected.
>
>> Perhaps the nicest fix would be to change the mapping code to map the
>> problematic locale name to "Norwegian_Norway" instead of "norwegian-bokmal".
>> That's assuming that it is in fact the same locale, and that it's accepted
>> on all supported Windows versions.
>
> I bet it is always accepted and always refers to the same locale. IIRC,
> interpretation of these names falls entirely within the CRT. Windows system
> libraries have no concept of these naming schemes.

Ok thanks for checking. I've committed a fix that way, mapping
"Norwegian (Bokmål)_Norway" to "Norwegian_Norway". The
"norwegian-bokmal" alias isn't used for anything anymore.

- Heikki