> _However_ I vehemently oppose his cavalier lack of concern for locales. Internationalization is important. ASCII is just as effective at disempowering others

> _However_ I vehemently oppose his cavalier lack of concern for locales. Internationalization is important. ASCII is just as effective at disempowering others. I also think internationalization is important, and that ASCII is mostly good at disempowering others. But at the same time I hate the way C locales work. They're a ridiculously terrible way of dealing with the problem, and an endless source of bugs. And for that matter, what should `isalnum(六)` return? (in case HN mangles that, I put the Japanese "Roku" kanji there, i.e. the numeral 5). I'd say it should return `true` no matter what locale you're set to, since it's a numeral. But glibc returns `false` unless your locale is set to Japanese when `isalnum` is called, and musl returns `false` always. Yet they inconsistently return `true` for `isalnum(5)`, no matter the locale.