Re: The glibc-2.2 locale name problem
rigel 寫道：
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 11:05:02PM +0800, thhsieh@linux.org.tw wrote:
> >
> > Although glibc-2.2 is smart enough such that it can determine
> > the default locale name "zh_TW" as "zh_TW.Big5", but it could
> > still introduce a lot of problems in the other parts of the system.
> > For example, the XFree86 (3.3.6) system. Even I made an alias
> > name from "zh_TW" to "zh_TW.Big5" in /usr/share/locale/locale.alias,
> > any X Window program using FontSet to draw texts will crash when
> > it excutes the XCreateFontSet() function call. Which means, all
> > of the Xi18n program will not run in this circumstance.
>
> Hello Hsieh,
>
> The alias in /usr/share/locale/locale.alias should not be necessary, instead
> you need a similar line in /usr/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias.
>
> I could not reproduce this problem on my system (RH7, I apologize for mentioning
> this name in this list :), with home made XFree4.0.1 and glibc2.1.95). However
> I highly suspect that it's just a mess-up of locale names in X. From old days,
> zh_TW means zh_TW.eucTW in X world. Only in XFree4, some one realized (finally!)
> that big5 is the more common encoding used and changed the locale alias. The
> change is reflected in /usr/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias file as follows:
> old ---> zh_TW zh_TW.eucTW
> new ---> zh_TW zh_TW.big5
> So you might want to check if you still have the old alias.
>
> As for the proper locale name, I believe we can do fine without a whole
> lot of changes. The following are my suggestions.
>
> 1. The C locales are fine, no change needed.
> 2. The X lcoales: need to add the above mentioned change. This is only
> needed for 3.3.x systems and as XFree4 eventually take over, this
> will be the default out of box.
> 3. The message files (i.e. po files): need both zh_CN/zh_CN.GB2312 and
> zh_TW/zh_TW.Big5 present in /usr/share/locale, as programs will
> look for both of them. I'd suggest that we make the short-named ones
> directories and the longer-named ones links, with the hope that the
> later will eventually disappear as more and more programmers adopt glibc2.2
> convention.
>
> Regards,
> rigel
Hi, I'm not sure it's as simple as you said. I upgraded to glibc2.2 and my x-window
no longer worked. The situation was just as the same as Hsieh said. I could not
figure out what was going on (I'm not good enough ^-^) and turned out to be
re-installed. I'm very carefull now and won't upgrade anything unless it's safe to
do so.
Rgds, Jason
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