Re: libc6 Netscape form problems
>I am running the libc6 version of Netscape 4.05 and am experiencing
>some strang problems when entering text into text fields. Something
>keeps appending random binary bits to the end of the strings and it
>really screws things up. Sometimes it isn't even apparent in the field
>and other times it is. This is really fun when trying to order things
>on the web!! As an example I tried placing an order for 2 items and it
>somehow converted it to 21!!! Yikes! Or as another example I entered
>"free source" into yahoo's search field and it said that I had entered,
>"free sourceü^¾¤-?ü^¾¤-?h=5>". What gives. I suppose I could
>re-install the libc5 version of Netscape but if Netscape is not the
>problem I don't want to download the 11+M over my 31.2k dialup.
It's a bug in Netscape, however there is a cure. If you set
LD_PRELOAD to /lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 the problems go away. If you
are using the Debian wrapper, the easiest way to get it set is to
edit /usr/bin/X11/netscape (it's a script). Look for the folloing
section and add the export LD_PRELOAD= line:
#
# Set some env vars to make things work better
#
#LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/netscape:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1
MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/netscape
NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=$HOME/.netscape/plugins:/usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins:/usr/lib
/netscape/plugins
display=$DISPLAY
export MOZILLA_HOME NPX_PLUGIN_PATH display
if you are not using the wrapper, alias netscape to run
env LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 netscape
HTH
/Anders
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