[fpc-devel] clocale unit

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Thu Sep 11 09:16:38 CEST 2008


In our previous episode, Paul Ishenin said:
> Please explain why clocale must be included as a separate unit to the 
> project?
> Why not include it into unix sysutils?

It uses the libc library. Same reason as cthreads, cwstring etc. It also
allows the user to override basic locale initialization and substitute it
with its own.


> Can we freely use it in lazarus or we can get problems?

Similar as for the units above: Lazarus already uses library libc.



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