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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:30:08 +0100
From: Alastair Houghton <ahoughton@...le.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: setlocale() behaviour
Hi there,
Presently, musl’s setlocale() function essentially always succeeds, even if it doesn’t actually have data for the requested locale. I note the previous message to the list in 2017
<https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2017/11/08/1>
discussing potential solutions, but unless I’m much mistaken nothing has really changed in the code?
This has come up because the test rig for libc++ tries to detect which locale data is installed so that it can run its own locale support tests (it’s trying to test the C++ locale support that it has constructed atop the C library’s underlying locale support). If, for instance, you don’t have data for fr_FR installed, libc++ won’t run test cases that rely on that data. On other C library implementations, that’s easy because setlocale() will return NULL in such a case, but musl doesn’t do that - instead, it sets up a copy of C.UTF-8, names it fr_FR and sets that as the current locale :-(
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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