From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-01-14T16:54:31+09:00
Subject: Re: does ruby's strftime not attempt POSIX-compliance?

Hi,

In message "Re: does ruby's strftime not attempt POSIX-compliance?"
    on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:57:58 +0900, Suraj Kurapati <snk@gna.org> writes:

|Hmm, I thought Matz said that Ruby 1.9 does this:
|
|  setlocale( ENV['LC_TYPE'] )
|
|instead of this:
|
|   setlocale( 'C' )
|
|Matz, would you please clarify?

Yes, the Ruby interpreter calls

  setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");

just because full setlocale (especially LC_TIME and LC_NUMERIC) can
cause problems if called implicitly.

							matz.