Re: X & locales problems.

[Paulo "José" da Silva e Silva <rsilva@ime.usp.br>]

Em sáb, 03 abr 1999, Branden Robinson escreveu:
> 
> Make sure you're using the latest version of the slink xlib6g package.  The
> version number is 3.3.2.3a-11.  For a while the locale and NLS data got
> caught in limbo, but that problem was solved months ago.
> 
> My /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias file has the following lines
> (among many others):
> 
> pt                      pt_PT.ISO8859-1
> pt_BR                   pt_BR.ISO8859-1
> pt_PT                   pt_PT.ISO8859-1
> pt_PT.88591             pt_PT.ISO8859-1
> pt_PT.88591.en          pt_PT.ISO8859-1
> pt_PT.iso88591          pt_PT.ISO8859-1
> pt_PT.ISO_8859-1        pt_PT.ISO8859-1
> portuguese_brazil.8859  pt_BR.ISO8859-1
> portuguese.iso88591     pt_PT.ISO8859-1
> 
> locale.alias is not a conffile, so yours should have these exact same
> lines.  If you don't, or if the file doesn't exist, that may explain the
> problem.  Reinstall xlib6g.
> 

Branden, thank you very much for your answer.

Yes I have xlib6g 3.3.2.3a-11, my locale.alias file has exactly that lines
(concerning the Portuguese language).  I also took a look on two other files on
the same directory: compose.dir and locale.dir. Both didn't mention pt_BR, only
pt_PT.  Then I decided to add to them the lines:

		In compose.dir:
		iso8859-1/Compose   pt_BR.ISO8859-1    

		In locale.dir
		iso8859-1/XLC_LOCALE pt_BR.ISO8859-1       

After these slight modifications WPrefs and some other X applications (like
xterm) stopped complaining. 

I really don't know how to face this. Doesn't X support pt_BR  (only pt_PT) or
this is a bug I should warn someone?

Thanks again,

Paulo.








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Paulo José da Silva e Silva
PH.D. Student on Applied Math
IME/USP