* Branden Robinson [2004-05-21 00:45:19-0500]
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:50:07AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote:
[...]
> > I tracked down what is setting LC_CTYPE: /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm
> > Sorry I didn't think to check outside of X before.
> >
> > There is even a comment about possibly not having a UTF8 enviornment
> > available. On Debian, it is possible to check /etc/locale.gen.
>
> That's not the right answer; I'm pretty sure the (GNU) C library
> supports function calls to inquire as to whether a given locale is
> supported.
>
> If some of those function calls are available in a simple shell utility,
> I'd be happy to patch the uxterm shell script accordingly. I might even
> be able to write it portably enough that it will be accepted upstream by
> Mr. Dickey.
There is the validlocale(8) utility in the base-config package and it is
currently used at the start of the second stage d-i installation to
validate the locale given (which comes from the debian-installer/locale
registery). Being a perl script, it uses the following standart call to
determine whether the locale exists:
my $loc = setlocale(LC_ALL, $LANG);
if ( ! $loc) {
print STDERR "locale '$LANG' not available\n";
[...]
I think it we could write a C version of validlocale, because it has a
fairly simple and well-defined interface, (and is already present in a
_base_ package.)
Regards,
--
roktas
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