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Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8
On 29/10/2009 14:37, Ken Brown wrote:
On 10/29/2009 9:42 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
On 29/10/2009 00:07, Andy Koppe wrote:
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. If 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.
Nope, I don't have LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE set
This is pretty curious, since all XSupportsLocale() should be doing
effectively is checking if setlocale (LC_ALL, NULL) returns a name it
understands.
Perhaps you can try the attached small test program.
$ LANG=C.UTF-8 ./Xlocale.exe
Setting locale from LANG succeeded
Locale is C.UTF-8
XSupportsLocale returned false
$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ./Xlocale.exe
Setting locale from LANG succeeded
Locale is en_US.UTF-8
XSupportsLocale returned true
$ unset LANG
$ ./Xlocale.exe
Setting locale from LANG succeeded
Locale is C
XSupportsLocale returned true
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 markov 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) 2009-10-03 14:33 i686 Cygwin
I suppose I should show you mine, then
$ LANG=C.UTF-8 ./Xlocale
Setting locale from LANG failed
Locale is C
XSupportsLocale returned true
$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ./Xlocale
Setting locale from LANG succeeded
Locale is en_US.UTF-8
XSupportsLocale returned true
$ unset LANG
$ ./Xlocale
Setting locale from LANG succeeded
Locale is C
XSupportsLocale returned true
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 byron 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin
Okay, well this makes sense now :-(
Appropriate data needs to exist in /usr/share/X11/locale for the C.UTF-8
locale, but it doesn't at the moment. Let me see if I can find it :-)
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