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Diffstat (limited to 'libjava/java/lang/natSystem.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | libjava/java/lang/natSystem.cc | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libjava/java/lang/natSystem.cc b/libjava/java/lang/natSystem.cc index f970ee6..8f06538 100644 --- a/libjava/java/lang/natSystem.cc +++ b/libjava/java/lang/natSystem.cc @@ -415,7 +415,12 @@ java::lang::System::init_properties (void) // Set user locale properties based on setlocale() #ifdef HAVE_SETLOCALE - char *locale = setlocale (LC_ALL, ""); + // We let the user choose the locale. However, since Java differs + // from POSIX, we arbitrarily pick LC_MESSAGES as determining the + // Java locale. We can't use LC_ALL because it might return a full + // list of all the settings. + setlocale (LC_ALL, ""); + char *locale = setlocale (LC_MESSAGES, ""); if (locale && strlen (locale) >= 2) { char buf[3]; |