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On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:15:06AM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 07:13:48PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:44:27PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:31:50PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> > > > The reason is that isalpha is implemented as .xs code, while tolower
> > > > is a pure Perl subroutine that calls lc.
> > >
> > > Urgh, that's a bug. tolower in POSIX should call the underlying C routine.
> > > POSIX.pm things should be POSIXish first and Perlish second.
> >
> > As for which ones need to be in C for locale purposes, aside from
> > tolower and toupper, the only candidate I see (that is actually
> > implemented) is strerror.
>
> FWIW, I took a quick look at this but gave up. For toupper and
> tolower, I thought I could just make them aliases to CORE::uc and
> CORE::lc, but I discovered you can't do that in Perl, and I'm not up
> to figuring out the XS method. For strerror, I discovered that it
> already "works", but only because locale is not properly lexically
> scoped. That is, there are many places where perl must call
> locale-aware C functions (like strerror()), but perl doesn't turn on
> and off C locale support (with setlocale()) by locale scope. (I
> infer from this that nobody's interested in getting locale support
> 100% right anyway.)
I'm somewhat interested, but 100%, I dunno, that means being fully
compliant with a buggy concept and usually a buggy implementation of
that buggy concept, I dunno whether that's a lofty goal... If you can
point out some of the spots where setlocale() acrobatics would be
needed, I can take a look them.
> Andrew
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