From Tom.Garland@Ireland.Sun.COM Fri Jun 20 11:43:15 1997 Received: from venus.Sun.COM (venus.Sun.COM [192.9.25.5]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA04706 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:43:13 +0200 Received: from sunmail1.Sun.COM ([129.145.1.2]) by venus.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/mail.byaddr) with SMTP id CAA09102 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 02:42:40 -0700 Received: from Ireland.Sun.COM by sunmail1.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-4.1) id CAA04721; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 02:42:36 -0700 Received: from ireserver by Ireland.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4-sd.fkk108) id KAA03725; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:43:04 +0100 Received: from elc4.ireland.sun.com by ireserver (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4-su.fkk201) id KAA08658; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:43:04 +0100 Received: from elc4 by elc4.ireland.sun.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA12467; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:43:02 +0100 Message-Id: <199706200943.KAA12467@elc4.ireland.sun.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:43:02 +0100 (BST) From: Tom Garland SMI European Software Centre Reply-To: Tom Garland SMI European Software Centre Subject: localedef hebrew problem To: i18n@dkuug.dk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-MD5: ARyO43e6IhZHJUnNNguJBw== X-Mailer: dtmail 1.2.0 CDE Version 1.2_30 SunOS 5.6 sun4m sparc Hi, can anyone help with this problem? Problem: Even though I defined hebrew characters in the LC_CTYPE/alpha section of the hebrew locale definition file, a call to 'isalpha(c)' with an Hebrew character return false. The same problem occures with 'graph' and 'print' sub sections as well. Why does it happen?: 1. /usr/include/ctype.h header. This header has an #ifdef which forces a primitive macro, instead accessing the libc is*class*() routines. I had to modify a local copy of ctype.h to overcome this. 2. localedef ignores alpha,graph,print sections. I suspect localedef does not take into acount the definitions in the alpha/graph/print sections. The contents of he.chrtbl.c file, created by localedef, seem to support this suspicion. Is this standard localedef behaviour? tom