From gwyn@ARL.MIL Wed Jul 17 02:40:37 1996 Received: from smokey.arl.mil (smokey.arl.mil [128.63.155.114]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA21129; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 02:40:35 +0200 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 96 20:36:15 EDT From: Doug Gwyn (ASHPC/MCSB) To: "Clive D.W. Feather" cc: Keld J|rn Simonsen , sc22wg15@dkuug.dk, sc22wg14@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (SC22WG14.2706) WG14 N586: POSIX Alignment Message-ID: <9607162036.aa22295@SMOKEY.ARL.MIL> It's not feasible for a standard function to enumerate all available locales, because a locale could be spelled as a self-descriptive string, and the set of potential locales is unbounded.