Re: platforms without <locale.h>

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Which platform is this?
> 
> Don't know offhand. I could ask.

Please, can you ask? Thanks.

> Right now Emacs is starting to freeze up for cutting off the next branch 
> and I expect people would not be interested in changing this crufty old 
> stuff right now. Probably better to ask later.

Please ask sooner than later. It doesn't help our development to have
knowledge of the kind "maybe there is an issue with XY, maybe not,
so let's be cautious and work around possible problems" ... for problems
that are in fact myths.

I don't see mentions of locale.h in emacs-devel in the last 10 years:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=locale.h&submit=Search%21&idxname=emacs-devel&max=100&result=normal&sort=date%3Alate

And web searches for "checking for locale.h... no" or
"checking locale.h presence... no" in the last 3 years reveal only
a couple of people who struggled setting up a cross-compiler correctly.

> Eli would rather 
> minimize that, as he reimplements Gnulib both for ancient (so old that 
> Microsoft stopped supporting it many years ago) MS-Windows and for 
> not-so-ancient MS-Windows.

Already Windows NT 4 from 1997 had locale.h. And the old mingw that Eli
is using had it as well, otherwise we would have noted it in
doc/posix-headers/locale.texi already many years ago.

Bruno