Let nl_langinfo(CODESET) return "US-ASCII" as the name of the

character codeset for the POSIX/C default locale.  This is the
preferred IANA name and also used by FreeBSD.

The previous value "646" was an obscure reference to ISO 646 (= ASCII)
and was not recognized by GNU iconv out of the box.

ok millert@, stsp@

diff --git a/lib/libc/locale/runetable.c b/lib/libc/locale/runetable.c
index 7a036ac..a669bf5 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/libc/locale/runetable.c
+++ b/lib/libc/locale/runetable.c
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ _RuneLocale _DefaultRuneLocale = {
     { 0, NULL },
     { 0, NULL },
     NULL, 0,
-    "646",
+    "US-ASCII",
    &_citrus_ctype_none,
     {
            { NULL, NULL, NULL },