[illumos-Developer] webrev: POSIX style localedef & multibyte encoding support

[Joerg Schilling]

Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:

> > A quick grep of my mailbox reveals thousands of:
> > Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed
> > 
> > I've no idea what a mail reader might do if that become an unknown
> > locale.
>
> Probably not even notice, since charset & locale are two different
> concepts, and I don't think Solaris has ever shipped a US-ASCII
> locale, since it doesn't match the locale name scheme - it would
> be something like en_US.ASCII to include region, language & charset.
>
> On Solaris, "locale -a" does not list US-ASCII, and both of these
> just show fallback to C:
> 	env LANG="US-ASCII" locale
> 	env LANG="bob" locale

US-ASCII is not a locale but a coding (see above, there is "CHARSET=US-ASCII"). 
You see it with iconv -l

Jörg

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