On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:56:00AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
PH> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, yurik shestakov wrote:
>> Result of fuctions strftime() is locale-dependent. So I had incorrect
>> email headers when LANG (or LC_TIME) =ru_UA.KOI8-U (cyrillic month and
>> day names in 'Date:' and 'From_').
PH> On checking this, I find that the C standard says
PH> "At program startup, the equivalent of
PH> setlocale(LC_ALL, "C");
PH> is executed."
PH> So I don't think this is a bug in Exim; I think it is a bug in your C
PH> runtime environment. However, there is no harm in actually including
I did testing on Debian 3.0 (woody): gcc-2.95.4, glibc-2.2.5.
PH> setlocale(LC_ALL, "C");
PH> at the start of Exim, just to be on the safe side. So I will do that.
It may be not so safe, if perl-hooked function changes default value.
But, it's a problem of those who do it without care.
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// yurik shestakov
