Re: NLS functions in the Lua core (was: Unexpected malloc)

[David Jones <drj@...>]

On 6 Nov 2007, at 17:50, Mike Pall wrote:
> - All recent Linux/*BSD distros and of course Mac OS X install
>   with UTF-8 locales by default. Most single-char NLS functions
>   don't work _at all_ with UTF-8 locales (see recent thread).

When viewed from POSIX land (as Lua does) Mac OS X does not install  
with a UTF-8 locale by default.  It doesn't set the LANG POSIX  
environment variable nor any of the LC_* environment variables,  
therefore when a POSIX app does a setlocale("") it still remains in  
the C/POSIX locale.

Granted UTF-8 is used pretty ubiquitously throughout Mac OS X, but  
you still need to select it explicitly from the POSIX world.

Everything else you say is bang on.

drj