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by layer8 520 days ago
It was a very reasonable design when most programs were local-only.
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account42 519 days ago
It really wasn't. Even local-only programs need to process data that isn't formatted in the user's locale.
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kazinator 519 days ago
thread-local locale you can easily save and restore would work. In other words, dynamically scoped.

But you don't want to be processing data in locale dependent-ways using the crap available in ISO C.

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