retitle 258223 xlibs-data: [locale.alias] please support et_EE.ISO-8859-15 reassign 258223 xlibs-data tag 258223 + upstream thanks On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:27:41PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote: > Package: libx11-6 > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 > Severity: wishlist > > After some quarrels about fixing et_EE locale to ISO-8859-15 (the > correct Estonian charset), a new locale was added with the right charset: > et_EE.ISO-8859-15. This locale is in Debian now too and works fine but > X11 libs don't support it: > > (gnome-calculator:5778): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib > > (gnome-calculator:5778): Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers > > Would you please add it to the X libraries package so we can use our > fixed locale with all apps. > > I wonder why X11 needs a hardcoded list of locales at all instead of > loading the system locale definitions but this is another problem. The short answer is that libX11 was written way back in the days when you couldn't count on a platform's C library to be locale-aware. Thanks for the report; I am reassigning it to the correct package. -- G. Branden Robinson | My first priority in any attack is Debian GNU/Linux | to solve the problem - not issue a branden@debian.org | press release. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Steve McInerney
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature