Bug#138468: locale warnings while extracting base
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 18:08, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 04:52:08PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 16:43, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > > If we remove the `@utf-8', does something actually break?
> >
> > Right now? Yes, dbootstrap selects LC based on the presence of the
> > "utf-8" string, so you won't even get off the ground without it. I
> > suspect that this kind of thing is quite pervasive, either looking
> > directly at LC_CTYPE or inspecting the result of nl_langinfo(LC_CTYPE).
>
> OK, I see that code now. Do we need to set LC_CTYPE, or could
> we use a new variable (e.g., USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER) instead? I'm
> not exactly sure what the second sentence means: where else is
> LC_CTYPE being inspected?
You could do something with USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER in that particular
instance, yes.
The one aspect of the locale that's absolutely vital is that mbrtowc()
and the associated functions need to accept UTF-8. Without that,
neither slang nor newt will work right. Secondary considerations are
things like modconf needing a suitable LC_MESSAGES to make it pick up
the UTF-8 strings, and Petter's base-config patch that needs to look at
the encoding type in order to decide what terminal to run.
p.
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