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Re: Bug in collation functions?


On 10/30/2015 3:14 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Oct 30 10:07, Ken Brown wrote:
What about the other issue I raised: Should setlocale return null to
indicate an error if it's given an invalid locale name like en_DE.UTF-8?

Huh.  Interesting.  You're runing Windows10, right?

Yes

 After some digging
it turns out there's a bug in W10.  LocaleNameToLCID() does *not* fail
and return with an error if it doesn't know a locale.  That would be too
simple I guess.  Rather, it returns a value LOCALE_CUSTOM_UNSPECIFIED,
0x1000.  So all unknown locales are now treated as custom locale.  Duh!
I fear the answer when trying to report this.  Probably it's a feature...

I applied a patch to workaround this feature.

Confirmed.  Thanks.

Ken

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