On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:17:29PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 03 September 2007, Karel Zak wrote:
>
> > I agree that we need a better support for compilation without
> > locales, but from my point of view NLS != all locales stuff. The NLS
> > support is subset only.
>
> generally, yes ... i18n and l10n are different/sep topics, but is there any
> real need to differentiate them in util-linux ? i'm not terribly familiar
ctype.h and widechar stuff depend on LC_CTYPE
> with some of the tools, but are there any that really care about things like
> wide character inputs and such ? or is it all for localization ?
Yes, for example things in text-utils/ have care about wide character inputs.
> > BTW, is there any real life example for this change?
>
> sure, build it under uClibc or any other libc where you can sanely disable all
> i18n/l10n cruft
OK.
Karel
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