[fpc-pascal] locale solution for unix systems

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:17 AM, ik <idokan at gmail.com> wrote:
> In order to know what is the active local in Unix/Linux you should
> check the environment variables.
> If it was not defined or it stand on "C", then en_US is inplace.

Currently FPC doesn't populate the locale variable on unix systems (if
you don't compile your application with the libc related units).

$>  locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=


Yet if I create a simple console application the date formats etc are
all en_US.  I want to write a new unit that doesn't rely on libc
(seeing that it isn't available on all UNIX-style platforms) that will
parse the correct locale text files (base on LC_xxx environment
variables) and populate the locale variables in the RTL.

It's on my todo list, but I have a few more things to finish before I
can start this project.

Regards,
  - Graeme -


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