>Number:         3592
>Category:       lib
>Synopsis:       libc doesn't support localized character sets
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    lib-bug-people (Library Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu May  8 14:50:02 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Matthias Scheler
>Organization:
Matthias Scheler                                http://home.pages.de/~tron/
>Release:        970422
>Environment:
System: NetBSD lyssa 1.2D NetBSD 1.2D (LYSSA) #0: Wed Apr 23 23:27:47 MEST 1997 tron@lyssa:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/LYSSA i386

>Description:
The current implementation of character set handling in "libc" isn't
localized. This way you can't select e.g. ISO-8859-1 as character set
to be able to use national characters.

>How-To-Repeat:
Try to enter national characters in e.g. "vi" or "talk".

>Fix:
Download ftp://colwyn.owl.de/pub/netbsd/experimental/ctype-locale.tar.gz
and integrate into the source tree.

[Sorry, but I didn't want to send 22KB of source code to this mailing list.]

With this patch you can e.g. set the environment variable "LC_CTYPE" to
"de"(*) to use ISO-8859-1 as character set.

(*) The countries for which ISO-8859-1 shell be used as character set can
    be controlled with "ISOALIASES" in "src/share/ctype/Makefile".
>Audit-Trail:
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