Re^2: Perl, Gtk2 and locale — a bit of a mess (POSIX)

What does the POSIX standard say should happen? What does your system say setlocale should do?

The setlocale link talks about POSIX::setlocale( LC_ALL , "" ) setting stuff like you're seeing, but in perl its the default Usage: POSIX::setlocale(category, locale = 0)

To query you use NULL, perls equivalent is

$ perl -e " use POSIX qw/ setlocale LC_ALL /; print setlocale( LC_ALL 
+, undef ); "
English_United States.1252
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So I don't think I'm seeing a bug here, looks like its working as designed

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Re^3: Perl, Gtk2 and locale — a bit of a mess (POSIX) by Ralesk (Pilgrim) on Jul 15, 2013 at 10:12 UTC
POSIX(3pm) says that the Perl equivalent of C’s `setlocale(cat, NULL)` is `setlocale($cat)` (i.e. one argument). I’m not explicitly setting the locale to the environment-given locale (`setlocale($cat, "")` or in C `setlocale(cat, "")`) until later in the code, so it should default to C locale.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Perl, Gtk2 and locale — a bit of a mess (POSIX) by Anonymous Monk on Jul 15, 2013 at 10:31 UTC
I hadn't checked https://metacpan.org/module/POSIX#setlocale, how embarrassing, and unreported	[reply]
Re^5: Perl, Gtk2 and locale — a bit of a mess (POSIX) by Ralesk (Pilgrim) on Jul 15, 2013 at 10:36 UTC
I found this, after looking around on that horrible RT. Hmm.	[reply]
Re^3: Perl, Gtk2 and locale — a bit of a mess (POSIX) by Ralesk (Pilgrim) on Jul 15, 2013 at 10:20 UTC
Also, setlocale(3) says the following: “If locale {the second param} is NULL, the current locale is only queried, not modified. On startup of the main program, the portable "C" locale is selected as default. A program may be made portable to all locales by calling setlocale(LC_ALL, "" ) after program initialization”	[reply]