[fpc-pascal] locale solution for unix systems

[Henry Vermaak]

2009/3/20 Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl>:
>
> Are they guaranteed default installed on most OSes ? It's pretty hard to
> parse something that is not there. Also start inventorizing all possible
> solutions on all possible distro's and OSes.

no, none of my embedded systems have the definition files.  also, they
depend on glibc under debian.

>
>> Anyone who links his app to libc (like a standard Lazarus app) can the
>> hapilly include clocale (because the text-based parsing might not be
>> 100% accurate).
>
> But has an unneeded size penalty (and breakage, since it is always run!).

exactly.

henry