SP-5.39.10 and locales

[sisyphus]

2 separate issues:
Firstly, on SP-5.39.10, I still get:

> perl -MPOSIX -wle "$loc = POSIX::setlocale( LC_ALL, 'English_UK.utf8' ); print $loc;"
Use of uninitialized value $loc in print at -e line 1.

Whereas, if 5.39.10 is built using the UCRT runtime (either gcc-13, or VS-2022) I get:

>perl -MPOSIX -wle "$loc = POSIX::setlocale( LC_ALL, 'English_UK.utf8' ); print $loc;"
English_United Kingdom.utf8

Secondly, I'm not so sure that it's correct to describe the "may hang or crash the interpreter" issue with Asian locales as "fixed".
Sure, the warning is now issued only when the problematic locale is actually used (and only once), but the potential for a "hang" or "crash" still remains.

I have no personal investment in these issues, and perhaps the points I've mentioned here are of little importance - which is the reason that I've chosen to raise them here, rather than further polluting other threads such as #150.

Cheers,
Rob

[shawnlaffan]

Thanks Rob.

Ideally we'll move to UCRT for perl 5.40. I just need to find time to rebuild the external deps, and update a few.

[sisyphus]

Ideally we'll move to UCRT for perl 5.40.

Excellent !! (I'll try to stop bangin' on about it, now.)