Re: LC_MESSAGES and BSD/OS

> Locale does not work on BSD/OS because it does not have LC_MESSAGES.  I
> just got this back from BSDI technical support.  Comments?

...

| LC_MESSAGES is apparently an extension; it's not in the POSIX spec, and it's
| not in the C spec I have handy.  (Admittedly, that's C99, but I don't think
| anything like this was removed since C89.)  So, recommend you #ifdef that;
| 
|     #ifdef LC_MESSAGES
|     ...[interact with LC_MESSAGES]
|     #endif

POSIX and ANSI C have the following categories:

LC_ALL
LC_COLLATE
LC_CTYPE
LC_MONETARY
LC_NUMERIC
LC_TIME

"Implementation defined additional categories" are allowed, and it
looks like many (most?) implementations use LC_MESSAGES, but they
don't have to, I guess.

Regards,

Giles