Bug#820803: xterm: X resources parsed with locale settings

[Philipp Marek <philipp.marek@linbit.com>]

> > Configuration files should be parsed via the "C" locale, IMO - having to 
> > think about "," vs. "." in there is awkward.

faceSize is affected, too, BTW.


> As far as I can tell the conversion is done in
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXt/tree/src/Converters.c#n822
> which indeed depends on the locale.
> 
> But since there's no way to tell how many people depend on the current
> behaviour, and changing it would break their configuration...
Well, it can't be *that* many people - because it's not that likely that
 a) different locale settings apply, AND
 b) user wants to change one of the few configuration settings that
    are affected, AND
 c) user figures out that "," (or whatever else) would be the answer.

So, IMO changing that would be safe enough.


If you disagree with me, then how about just keeping the current behaviour, 
but try to parse with the "C" locale too!?
In the worst case, use "faceSizeC" or other names? (Ugh.)