Re: [Chicken-users] date, string formatting and locale

[Hugo Arregui]

Thanks Thomas, it's clear now.

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Thomas Chust <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the locale egg may examine environment variables to set its default locale
> to the same one the C library would use, but the locale management of the egg
> and the C library is otherwise completely independent. It should definitely
> be possible to setup the C library and the locale egg to use completely
> different locales. But, as I mentioned before, setting the C library locale
> at all, especially inside a CHICKEN program, is usually not a terribly smart
> idea.
>
> Ciao,
> Thomas