From: "A. Wilcox" <awilfox@adelielinux.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: printf doesn't respect locale
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:55:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <539924f1-6cdb-0652-e9bf-4c5e6922823d@adelielinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190910184312.GJ22009@port70.net>
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On 10/09/2019 13:43, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> i think libc should mainly aim for reliability of systems
> software and not for friendliness of ui applications.
While reliability is important, I disagree that reliability should
*exclude* UI.
musl already causes crashes or other unexpected behaviour when system
software isn't written correctly. That's a feature, not a bug. If musl
supporting ',' as radix point causes bad software to crash, then that
software needs to be fixed.
We at Adélie field requests nearly every day wondering why our system
doesn't support other locales for things like sort, LC_NUMERIC,
LC_MONETARY, etc etc. The only reason I haven't been more active in
developing musl's locale support is because I'm too busy doing other
important work.
We would be *extremely* disappointed if LC_NUMERIC would never be
supported in upstream musl. We would have to maintain a patch to add
LC_NUMERIC support when the rest of musl's locale support is developed.
Best,
--arw
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A. Wilcox (awilfox)
Project Lead, Adélie Linux
https://www.adelielinux.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-10 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-09 16:31 Daniel Schoepe
2019-09-09 16:39 ` Daniel Schoepe
2019-09-09 16:51 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-09-09 17:55 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-09 17:54 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-10 16:00 ` Daniel Schoepe
2019-09-10 16:31 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-09-10 16:44 ` Tim Tassonis
2019-09-10 17:30 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-10 17:10 ` Daniel Schoepe
2019-09-10 17:33 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-10 18:43 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-09-10 21:55 ` A. Wilcox [this message]
2019-09-11 10:01 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-09-11 10:07 ` Jens Gustedt
2019-09-11 11:44 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-11 12:53 ` Jens Gustedt
2019-09-11 13:47 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-11 15:15 ` Jens Gustedt
2019-09-11 15:38 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-11 18:08 ` Jens Gustedt
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