From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
To: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: cygwin started speaking German today
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1317840641.1708.27.camel@YAAKOV04> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E8CA0AF.50805@cornell.edu>
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 14:23 -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
> I think you're mixing two questions that should be kept separate. The
> first is how /etc/profile.d/lang.{sh,csh} should set LANG. That's a
> question that the Cygwin developers and/or base-files maintainer need to
> decide.
Agreed. There are pros and cons both ways, and I'll leave that for
another message.
> The second is whether libintl should override Cygwin's locale
> settings. Isn't the answer clearly no? Why can't this be fixed (in
> opposition to Bruno, if necessary) before a final decision is made about
> /etc/profile.d/lang.{sh,csh}?
Agreed. Cygwin is a *NIX platform, and libintl needs to respect that by
not trying to set or override LANG/LC_MESSAGES. Upstream's disagreement
with this point is completely irrelevant; it is simply not their place
to dictate to us how our platform should operate. While it would seem
that it means carrying a patch for the foreseeable future (not that
gettext releases that often), if upstream refuses to cooperate then I
don't see that we have much of a choice.
You are also correct that this can and should be fixed ASAP, even before
the first point is decided. +1 for patching this now.
Yaakov
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-30 10:18 Voelker, Bernhard
2011-08-30 11:28 ` Charles Wilson
2011-09-08 2:31 ` Charles Wilson
2011-09-08 10:46 ` Bruno Haible
2011-09-08 10:55 ` Voelker, Bernhard
2011-09-08 11:06 ` Eric Blake
2011-09-08 12:05 ` Charles Wilson
2011-09-08 12:48 ` Andy Koppe
2011-09-08 13:13 ` Eric Blake
2011-09-08 12:51 ` Andy Koppe
2011-09-08 21:58 ` Bruno Haible
[not found] ` <201109082344.55506.bruno@clisp.org>
2011-09-09 9:18 ` Charles Wilson
2011-09-09 12:33 ` Andy Koppe
2011-09-09 15:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-09-10 11:36 ` Thorsten Kampe
2011-09-13 18:39 ` Eric Blake
2011-09-17 21:50 ` David Sastre
2011-09-17 22:50 ` Ken Brown
2011-09-18 3:19 ` David Sastre
2011-10-04 12:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-04 12:46 ` Charles Wilson
2011-10-04 14:30 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-04 18:04 ` Erwin Waterlander
2011-10-04 18:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-05 16:04 ` Erwin Waterlander
2011-10-05 16:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-05 16:52 ` Erwin Waterlander
2011-10-05 17:32 ` Charles Wilson
2011-10-05 18:24 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-05 18:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-05 18:44 ` Erwin Waterlander
2011-10-05 18:50 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X) [this message]
2011-10-05 18:58 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-10-10 17:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-11 15:41 ` Erwin Waterlander
2011-10-11 16:54 ` Charles Wilson
2011-10-11 17:29 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-10-16 18:42 ` Charles Wilson
2011-10-17 6:59 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-17 13:17 ` Charles Wilson
2011-10-17 13:52 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-17 13:58 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-05 18:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-06 1:35 ` [OT] " Andrey Repin
2011-10-05 12:08 ` Ken Brown
2011-09-09 15:13 ` Charles Wilson
2011-09-09 20:08 ` Andy Koppe
2011-09-08 13:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-09-08 13:51 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-09-08 20:57 ` Bruno Haible
2011-09-09 15:09 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-09-09 15:58 ` Andy Koppe
2011-09-10 11:45 ` Thorsten Kampe
2011-09-10 13:50 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-09-10 16:10 ` Thorsten Kampe
2011-09-10 17:11 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-08-31 8:39 Voelker, Bernhard
2011-08-31 14:01 ` Charles Wilson
2011-08-31 15:19 ` Charles Wilson
2011-09-01 5:30 Voelker, Bernhard
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