1 /* hard-locale.c -- Determine whether a locale is hard.
3 Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software
6 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
11 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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17 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
18 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
25 #include "hard-locale.h"
34 /* Return true if the current CATEGORY locale is hard, i.e. if you
35 can't get away with assuming traditional C or POSIX behavior. */
37 hard_locale (int category)
44 char const *p = setlocale (category, NULL);
48 # if defined(__FreeBSD__) || (defined __GLIBC__ && 2 <= __GLIBC__)
49 if (strcmp (p, "C") == 0 || strcmp (p, "POSIX") == 0)
52 char *locale = malloc (strlen (p) + 1);
57 /* Temporarily set the locale to the "C" and "POSIX" locales
58 to find their names, so that we can determine whether one
59 or the other is the caller's locale. */
60 if (((p = setlocale (category, "C"))
61 && strcmp (p, locale) == 0)
62 || ((p = setlocale (category, "POSIX"))
63 && strcmp (p, locale) == 0))
66 /* Restore the caller's locale. */
67 setlocale (category, locale);