[perl #134234] CODESET doesn't behave as documented

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:10:02 GMT, choroba@matfyz.cz wrote:
> This is a bug report for perl from choroba@matfyz.cz,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.41 running under perl 5.31.1.
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> [Please describe your issue here]
> 
> The documentation of CODESET in I18N::Langinfo says:
> 
> "CODESET"
>    Unimplemented, except on Windows, due to the vagaries of vendor
>    locale names, returning "" on non-Windows.
> 
> But, when running in Linux, it clearly returns something:
> 
> $ perl -MI18N::Langinfo=langinfo,CODESET -E 'say langinfo(CODESET)'
> UTF-8
> 
> Reading the source code shows the function calls nl_langinfo if it
> exists. The documentation should be updated to reflect the fact it can
> return something on non-Windows sometimes.
> 

Indeed, I get a non-empty return value on Linux as far back as 5.10.1.

Karl, this documentation was added in commit 8d72e74e3dc5017c5a3fade48e0c74109c297ebc.  Can you take a look?

Thank you very much.

-- 
James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org)

---
via perlbug:  queue: perl5 status: new
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=134234

• Re: [perl #134234] CODESET doesn't behave as documented by E. Choroba
• [perl #134234] CODESET doesn't behave as documented by James E Keenan via RT
• Re: [perl #134234] CODESET doesn't behave as documented by Karl Williamson
• [perl #134234] CODESET doesn't behave as documented by James E Keenan via RT