WebAssembly / WebAssembly/WASI
Expose language, locale, and timezone info
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Description
It would be good for WASI to be able to expose the information needed to implement the POSIX LANG, LC_*, and TZ environment variables.
One option would be to literally forward these environment variables through WASI's environment-variable system, however we'll likely want this information in programs which don't otherwise use environment variables, so we should consider a different API -- WASI libc could translate it into the environment variables for compatibility if needed.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with WASI's environment-variable system and the POSIX LANG, LC_*, and TZ requirements described in the issue. Compare forwarding these variables with providing a separate API; done means selecting and specifying an API, including how WASI libc preserves compatibility.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- wasm
- Domain
- internationalization, localization, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100