Possible bug?

[Ulf Wiger]

Per Hedeland wrote:
> 
> Klacke wrote:
> >Basically Erlang doesn't really support anything but plain ascii
> >today. However the usage of non-ascii characters should not
> >lead to compile time errors, only to ugly printouts.
> 
> Actually, if you (on Solaris) set environment LANG=sv, or
> LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1, your example produces a perfectly beautiful
> printout:
> 
> 1> a:a().
> "åääää"
> 
> I.e. Erlang uses the standardized isprint() etc functions, whose
> behaviour, assuming you have called the standardized setlocale()
> function properly (which Erlang does), is supposed to depend on the
> standardized environment variables LANG, LC_CTYPE, etc. Unfortunately
> the *values* of those variables aren't standardized:-(, you'll have to
> check your OS documentation to see what it wants/supports.
> 
> (On Solaris some documentation can be found in setlocale(3C) and
> friends, but I believe you have to go hunting in the filesystem
> (/usr/lib/locale) to find the actual values.)
> 
> --Per Hedeland
> per@REDACTED
> 
> PS Other things (outside Erlang) may "break" in particular if you set
> LANG, e.g. floating point numbers, dates, error messages, etc may start
> to get printed in funny ways that the standardization bodies think you
> want - I guess some would call this a "feature" - oh well...:-)

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