Documenting composite LC_ALL locale, anyone?

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 03:50:14PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 02:31:28PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > Oops, '\0' must not happens inside, so no binary 2 bytes but
> > > 
> > > digits - char count
> > > space
> > > string
> > > digits
> > > space
> > > ...
> > > 
> > But space is a valid character in filenames.
> 
> It does not matter, first space after number skipped. Space needed to 
> separate number from name (which can start from number in general case).
> 
This format is easy to generate when querying the locale with
setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL), but when setting the locale it becomes
very user-unfriendly.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru at FreeBSD.org
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