Re: Locale support

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hi Alexander,

Alexander Jones wrote:
> According to the README, locale(3) support is listed as an omission. I
> see a setlocale call at main.c:207, but POSIX does specify particular
> handling of locale-related environment variables that ed ignores. For
> reference, FreeBSD removed that line from their POSIX file two decades
> ago with just the setlocale call implemented, and the setlocale call has
> been in main.c since at least GNU ed 0.3, so I'm wondering if it's the
> environment variables that are holding up a declaration of POSIX locale
> compliance, or was this simply a long-missed oversight?

Thank you for reporting this. I think it is simply a long-missed oversight 
because the setlocale call is about all the locale support that ed needs, 
and it has been in main.c since GNU ed 0.2.

I have just removed the 'OMISSIONS' section from README.

Best regards,
Antonio.