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setlocale: Work around bug on Android 4.3. * m4/setlocale.m4 (gl_FUNC_SETLOCALE): Test whether setlocale supports the "C" locale. * lib/setlocale.c (setlocale_unixlike): New wrapper for Android. * doc/posix-functions/setlocale.texi: Mention the Android bug.
author Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
date Fri, 25 Jan 2019 23:26:24 +0100
parents 7a82d5ff8472
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--- a/doc/posix-functions/setlocale.texi	Fri Jan 25 03:54:09 2019 +0100
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/setlocale.texi	Fri Jan 25 23:26:24 2019 +0100
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@
 On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), @code{setlocale} understands different
 locale names, that are not based on ISO 639 language names and ISO 3166 country
 names.
+@item
+On Android 4.3, which which doesn't have locales, the @code{setlocale} function
+always fails.  The replacement, however, supports only the locale names
+@code{"C"} and @code{"POSIX"}.
 @end itemize
 
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