FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 06:28:23PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
> > I would like to be able to set 'en_MX', 'en_US' and 'sp_MX' after the
> > creation of the TDS_SOCKET*/LOGIN*/LOCALE* bundle.  Theoretically I
> > should be able to set those values before I tds_send_login(...), right?

> If you mean the environment strings, from what I've read, you need to set
> those values before your application starts up, if you want portable code.
>  Different libc implementations react differently (or not at all) to
> changes in the environment once the application starts.  I think I read
> about that in perl's documentation.  

You can always call setlocale() with a specific locale value, instead of
defaulting to the environment settings.  This is portable to all
non-broken implementations of setlocale(). :)

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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