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Re: [li18nux2000:62] locales and digits

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Bruno Haible wrote:

> glibc certainly supports U+0660..U+0669 as characters. But if you
> create a locale in which iswdigit() of these characters returns true,
> this locale will not be ISO C 99 compliant. (See ISO C 99 sections
> 7.25.2.1.5 and 5.2.1.) You can do it, but expect many programs to
> break. glibc does not ship with non ISO-C compliant locales.

I know that. I was talking about the "outdigit" facility that glibc had
promised for some time. I need to be able to display date and time in
national digits. I cannot push fa_IR anywhere without that feature.

--roozbeh

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