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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2000-07-24 Eric Melski <ericm@ajubasolutions.com> + + * doc/msgcat.n: Added documentation about the selection of the + default locale on Windows. + 2000-07-23 Joe English <jenglish@flightlab.com> * doc/AddErrInfo.3: * doc/ChnlStack.3: diff --git a/doc/msgcat.n b/doc/msgcat.n index 4d604c9..829a2f5 100644 --- a/doc/msgcat.n +++ b/doc/msgcat.n @@ -132,7 +132,10 @@ For example, the locale ``en'' specifies English and ``en_US'' specifes U.S. English. .PP The locale defaults to the value in \fBenv(LANG)\fR at the time the -\fBmsgcat\fR package is loaded. If \fBenv(LANG)\fR is not defined, then the +\fBmsgcat\fR package is loaded. On Windows, if \fBenv(LANG)\fR is not +set, the package will attempt to extract locale information from the +registry. If it cannot find this information in the registry, or on +non-Windows platforms when \fBenv(LANG)\fR is not defined, the locale defaults to ``C''. .PP When a locale is specified by the user, a ``best match'' search is |