Subject: Re: finger
To: Kimmo Suominen <kim@tac.nyc.ny.us>
From: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/10/2002 21:08:45 
>>>>> On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 07:57:46 -0400,
	Kimmo Suominen <kim@tac.nyc.ny.us> said:

> 	(void) putenv("LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-15");

Hardcoding locale name like this is really bad practice of
programing.

This should be done by either
	1. passing locale name by its argument.
or
	2. hardcoding usable range of codepoints.
--
soda