[cups.bugs] Re: [MOD] STR #1194: CUPS uses LC_MESSAGES to determine

Markus Kuhn Markus.Kuhn at cl.cam.ac.uk
Fri Jun 10 05:54:34 PDT 2005


[STR New]

Should there be concern about pre-2001 POSIX systems that do not implement
nl_langinfo(CODESET), then a public-domain workaround emulator for it,
which guesses the character set based on the locale name  from the
environment variables, is available on:

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c

That routine was widely used before FreeBSD finally added
nl_langinfo(CODESET) support with version 4.6 in mid 2002 (the last
widely-used POSIX system that was still missing it). I doubt it is still
necessary today.

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1194
Version: 1.1.23





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