Le 01/06/2020 à 20:51, Miguel Figueiredo a écrit :
I suspect /usr/share/X11/locale/C was missing and not related with
en_US, which is not needed - see screenshot from the locales directory
on a new installation with only Portuguese files.
Let me know if /usr/share/X11/locale/C is present.
Hello,
Thanks for your testing and response.
To answer your question, yes the "C" directory is present
$ ls /usr/share/X11/locale/C/
Compose XI18N_OBJS XLC_LOCALE
I believe the problem is with how X11 supports UTF-8.
Running dmenu through strace with LANG set to fr_FR.UTF-8 shows that it
tries to use en_US.UTF-8 and fails
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.dir", O_RDONLY) = 3
access("/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE", R_OK) = -1
ENOENT (Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type)
The file /usr/share/X11/locale/locale.dir points the locale name at the
locale database file name
In this file a comment states that the support is incomplete
# Note: The UTF-8 locales don't work correctly yet. Work in progress.
Luckily Portuguese is correctly supported which explain why your test worked
$ grep pt_PT.UTF-8 /usr/share/X11/locale/locale.dir
pt_PT.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE pt_PT.UTF-8
pt_PT.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE: pt_PT.UTF-8
Indeed the locale database exists in libx11-data
$ dpkg-deb -c libx11-data_2%3a1.6.9-2_all.deb |grep pt_PT
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2020-02-26 17:40
./usr/share/X11/locale/pt_PT.UTF-8/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 237 2020-02-26 17:40
./usr/share/X11/locale/pt_PT.UTF-8/Compose
-rw-r--r-- root/root 345 2020-02-26 17:40
./usr/share/X11/locale/pt_PT.UTF-8/XI18N_OBJS
-rw-r--r-- root/root 2064 2020-02-26 17:40
./usr/share/X11/locale/pt_PT.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE
OTOH fr_FR.UTF-8 has no database and points at the US locale
$ grep fr_FR.UTF-8 /usr/share/X11/locale/locale.dir
en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE fr_FR.UTF-8
en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE: fr_FR.UTF-8
$ dpkg-deb -c libx11-data_2%3a1.6.9-2_all.deb |grep fr_FR.UTF-8
Same for Basque eu_ES.UTF-8 as reported by Martintxo
$ grep eu_ES.UTF-8 /usr/share/X11/locale/locale.dir
en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE eu_ES.UTF-8
en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE: eu_ES.UTF-8
$ dpkg-deb -c libx11-data_2%3a1.6.9-2_all.deb |grep eu_ES.UTF-8
Test of dmenu (LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8) with and w/o en_US.UTF-8 locale directory
$ echo $LANG
fr_FR.UTF-8
$ echo -e 'One\nTwo\nThree' | dmenu
Two
$ sudo mv /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8
/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8.bkup
$ echo -e 'One\nTwo\nThree' | dmenu
warning: no locale support
warning: no locale modifiers support
Erreur de segmentation
So it seems that en_US.UTF-8 should be treated as "C" by localepurge wrt
UTF-8 to be safe
Thanks!
