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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: kbrown@cornell.edu
Subject: Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE8D942.8020806@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE8539E.9080004@cornell.edu>

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.

On 28/10/2009 21:49, Andy Koppe wrote:
 > Xwin 1.6.x had no problem with "C.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.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-28 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-28 14:22 Ken Brown
2009-10-28 21:23 ` Thomas Dickey
2009-10-28 21:48   ` Ken Brown
2009-10-28 22:07     ` Andy Koppe
2009-11-28 12:22       ` Ken Brown
2009-11-28 13:35         ` Andy Koppe
2009-11-28 15:29           ` Ken Brown
2009-12-03  5:27         ` Linda Walsh
2009-12-03  7:37           ` Charles Wilson
2009-12-03  7:48           ` Andy Koppe
2009-12-03  9:09             ` Corinna Vinschen
2009-12-03  9:55             ` Thomas Dickey
2009-12-03 13:16               ` Andy Koppe
2009-12-03 13:48                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2009-12-04  4:30               ` Eric Blake
2009-12-04  9:45                 ` Thomas Dickey
2009-10-28 21:49   ` Andy Koppe
2009-10-28 23:51     ` Andy Koppe
2009-10-28 22:19   ` Charles Wilson
2009-10-28 23:52 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2009-10-29  0:07   ` Andy Koppe
2009-10-29 13:42     ` Jon TURNEY
2009-10-29 13:56       ` Corinna Vinschen
2009-10-29 14:54         ` Jon TURNEY
2009-10-29 14:37       ` Ken Brown
2009-10-29 15:01         ` Jon TURNEY
2009-10-29 19:11           ` Jon TURNEY
2009-10-29 20:20             ` Andy Koppe
2009-11-03 21:00               ` Jon TURNEY
2009-11-04  6:34                 ` Andy Koppe

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