Re: What happened with locale support?
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 08:19:20AM +0100, jcdubacq@info.unicaen.fr wrote:
> I disagree. Locales don't work fine anymore since I installed libc6
> 2.1.97-1. Xlib makes a translation of lacales in its own private format
> (see file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.dir and .alias), and
> libc6 doesn(t provide any more (at least, experimentally) an equivalence
> between ISO-8859-1 (for the charset) and ISO8859-1 (expected by Xlib).
> It did before, because I didn't have these warnings:
> rebma ~ $ LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 gnome-terminal
Now that explains why I didn't find the problem in each program.
> So something changed in the locale management. But who is in fault (Xlib
> or libc6) I can't say. My sources say it should be ISO-8859-1, but the
> files used by xlib have been that way since a long time.
Sure? I expereinced problems with gdm and that program does not start with
any locale set but instead you choose the language from the menu and it
stores it inside its own config file. But since upgrading libc6 it doe not
work anymore.
Michael
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