Improve locale implementation (should now behave identically to bash) and document locale variables behaviour

darcs-hash:20060108230049-ac50b-403f1d00c8483fc4fecc275b62e40b1c3d51bfc1.gz

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/common.h b/common.h
index 77de61ca..33eb8341 100644
--- a/common.h
+++ b/common.h
@@ -256,9 +256,12 @@ wchar_t *quote_end( const wchar_t *in );
 void error_reset();
 
 /**
-   Set the locale, also change the ellipsis character
+   This function behaves exactly like a wide character equivalent of
+   the C function setlocale, except that it will also try to detect if
+   the user is using a Unicode character set, and if so, use the
+   unicode ellipsis character as ellipsis, instead of '$'.      
 */
-void fish_setlocale( int category, const wchar_t *locale );
+const wchar_t *wsetlocale( int category, const wchar_t *locale );
 
 /**
    Checks if \c needle is included in the list of strings specified