[htdig-dev] Problem with setlocale(LC_ALL)

[Bernd L. <ber...@rz...>]

Hi,

I had troubles with accented characters an a host running solaris9.
FAQ item 5.8 recommends running testlocale.c

The system has only very basic locale support installed:

$ locale -a
POSIX
C
iso_8859_1


running

$ ./testlocale iso_8859_1

indeed shows characters 192 through 255 as accented letters.
However htdig didn't index words with accented letters.

Comparing the sources of testlocale.c and htlib/Configuration.cc
I found that testlocale.c ist using
setlocale(LC_CTYPE)

but htlib/Configuration.cc is using
setlocale(LC_ALL)

this call fails with the iso_8859_1 locale.

I changed htlib/Configuration.cc to use  setlocale(LC_CTYPE) as well.
Bingo, htdig now works as expected.

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