From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5753 invoked by alias); 28 Oct 2009 21:49:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 5740 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Oct 2009 21:49:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SARE_SUB_ENC_UTF8,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (HELO qw-out-1920.google.com) (74.125.92.148) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:49:04 +0000 Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so290492qwk.20 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:49:02 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.111.77 with SMTP id r13mr2357509qcp.85.1256766542473; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:49:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20091028172216.P60895@mail101.his.com> References: <4AE8539E.9080004@cornell.edu> <20091028172216.P60895@mail101.his.com> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:49:00 -0000 Message-ID: <416096c60910281449l8d96131pca91a021b008157e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8 From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-10/txt/msg00115.txt.bz2 2009/10/28 Thomas Dickey: >> X11R7.5 doesn't like the (default) locale C.UTF-8. =C2=A0If I start the = server > > technically speaking, there's "no such locale" as C.UTF-8, > so I'd not expect portable code to accept it ("C" and "UTF-8" are > mutually exclusive). Technically speaking, portable code should make no assumption whatsoever about the locale string. The meaning of that string is up to the OS, and portable code should be using POSIX interfaces such as the multibyte conversion functions or nl_langinfo to get at its meaning. "C.UTF-8" is a language-neutral locale with a UTF-8 charset. It is also being introduced by Debain: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D522776. Xwin 1.6.x had no problem with "C.UTF-8". Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/