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From: pmh@ardbeg.islay.sub.org (Patrick M. Hausen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: 2.1.5 locale oddities
Date: 25 Aug 1996 11:41:41 GMT
Organization: Patrick M. Hausen - private site
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Hi All!
I updated my system to 2.1.5 - some bugs seem to have survived from 2.1.0.
When I set ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE, xterm still dumps core like in 2.1.0 -
this used to work in 2.0.5.
When I just set LANG to, say, lt_LN.ISO_8859-1, to make elm display 8bit,
then emacs complains:
Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
When I set both LANG and ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE in 2.0.5, then vi displayed
8bit - doesn't work either.
What's going wrong here? Is there any way I can help to fix this?
As far as I understand, setting LANG makes the isxxx() functions of the
ctype library look up the definitions in the corresponding file in
/usr/share/locale - so far so good. Now, what for is ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE,
why do certain applications dump core and why are there
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale and /usr/local/share/nls?
If someone could provide me with the right pointers to where to start, I
would try to fix this mess.
Paddy
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Patrick M. Hausen Gerwigstr. 11 76131 Karlsruhe pmh@islay.sub.org
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-- for all the bad you pay down here" (Kieran Halpin)