[Haskell-cafe] Porting setlocale to Windows

Alexey Shmalko rasen.dubi at gmail.com
Thu Jan 1 22:13:58 UTC 2015


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 at 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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