Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

[Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>]

2009/10/28 Jon TURNEY:
> On 28/10/2009 14:22, Ken Brown wrote:
>>
>> X11R7.5 doesn't like the (default) locale C.UTF-8. ÂIf I start the
>> server with 'LANG=C.UTF-8 /usr/bin/startxwin.bat', the server exits
>> immediately, and the log has complaints about the locale. If I instead
>> use 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8', there's no problem. I've attached both logs and
>> cygcheck output.
>
> Thanks for the bug report.
>
> I'm afraid I'm not immediately able to reproduce this, though, using the
> command you give.

You might have LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE set, which would override LANG. Or
perhaps startxwin.bat overrides things somewhere along the way?

To avoid all that, you could try invoking Xwin directly with LC_ALL
set, which is top dog among locale variables.

  LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 xwin -multiwindow&

It fails with en.UTF-8 too (which also is a legal Cygwin locale), but
it works with en_US.UTF-8.


> The significant change is probably that libX11 is no longer built with
> X_LOCALE (so that libX11 uses the native locale support rather than it's
> own).
> Exactly why this would cause a problem, I don't know.

Hmm, that sounds like it should have improved matters if anything.

Andy

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