Problem with sort (coreutils)

Thanks a lot Mathias...

I'll try to see if it works...

Alexandre

I think the most gnuwin32 tools will ignore LC_... environment variables because they utilise the windows xp native setlocale() function. To substantiate my assumption, I wrote a small program in C:

int main(void) {
printf("%s\n", setlocale( LC_ALL, NULL ));
setlocale( LC_ALL, "");
printf("%s\n", setlocale( LC_ALL, NULL ));
return 0;
}

The output of the program was

C
German_Switzerland.1252

-- independent on LC_ALL! Now, the first thing that happens within sort.c is:

setlocale( LC_ALL, "");

Thus, on my computer sort.exe will work always with the German_Switzerland.1252 locale.

I propose to apply a patch to all gnuwin32 programs that replace the line

setlocale( LC_ALL, "");

by something more meaningful, e.g. by

{
static struct {int id; char const * name;} const locale_list[] = {
{LC_ALL, "LC_ALL"},
{LC_COLLATE, "LC_COLLATE"},
{LC_CTYPE, "LC_CTYPE"},
{LC_MONETARY, "LC_MONETARY"},
{LC_NUMERIC, "LC_NUMERIC"},
{LC_TIME, "LC_TIME"}
};
int index;

for (
    index = 0;
    index = sizeof locale_list / sizeof locale_list[0];
    index += 1
) {
    char const * env_var_name    = locale_list[index].name;
    char const * env_var_content = getenv(env_var_name);
    if (env_var_content != NULL) {
        setlocale(locale_list[index].id, env_var_content);
    }
}

}

I guess that is what happens with the posix setlocale that the gnuwin32 utilities are expecting to handle with.

With kind regards

Mathias