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xlibs break on extended locale specificaton



Package: xlibs
Severity: important

#include <hallo.h>
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote on Thu Mar 07, 2002 um 02:35:06PM:

> > Given a locale string in german.src of "de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro", you
> > ideally want to be writing "de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15" into
> > /etc/locale.gen and setting LANG to "de_DE@euro".
> 
> There is no need to rewrite the LANG content.
> "de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro" is a synonym for "de_DE@euro" if the German

Was also my idea, but X applications seem to break on a such locales
specification.

> locale was generated using the requested ISO-8859-15.

export LANG=de_DE@euro
gvim
<starts fine>
export LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro
date
Don Mär  7 16:06:46 CET 2002
<BUT>
gvim

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

konsole
Qt: Locales not supported on X server

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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