Locale problems on Solaris

[Dan Astoorian]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 05:59:12 EST, Scot Elliott writes:
> Actually from a quick truss of a telnetd process, it seems it calls
> setlocale().  I'd suggest that's the way to go rather than reading in
> /etc/default/init.

I don't think setlocale() solves the problem.  I believe it's the case
that setlocale(LC_...,"") uses the LC_*/LANG environment variables (as
opposed to setting them); and that nothing setlocale() does is inherited
through an exec*() call.

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