I assume that "do nothing", means that a call to
`setLocale LC_MESSAGES x` always returns Nothing (which may confuse
some applications, but maybe it does in the right way).
Then there's the question left, what categoryToCInt does. I could
change it's signature to `Category -> Maybe CInt`, but that would mean
breaking the API. Instead I could make say
`categoryToCInt LC_MESSAGES = -1`, which may confuse some applications
which assume that categoryToCInt returns valid integers. But I guess,
that's not that much of a problem, since categoryToCInt is not really
often used in packages other than setlocale itself.
Regards
Sven
On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 00:13:58 +0200
Alexey Shmalko
Hi,
The third option is to make `setLocale LC_MESSAGES` do nothing. I believe, it's perfectly acceptable in this case and is much better than making it an error.
Regards, Alexey
2015-01-01 21:45 GMT+02:00 Sven Bartscher < sven.bartscher@weltraumschlangen.de>:
Greetings,
A while ago I took over the packages setlocale. I now would like to make it portable to windows, but came across the problem that LC_MESSAGES isn't defined on mingw. I thought about these options, for solving this: - Not defining LC_MESSAGES, which would mean, every package using LC_MESSAGES wouldn't be portable to windows. - Defining LC_MESSAGES as some an error, which would basically have the same problem as above.
I don't like either of these solutions, but don't know any better. I would be happy about suggestions.
Regards Sven
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