Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Agreed; this choice was somewhat rhetorical in nature... > > > > b) use $LANG or $LC_CTYPE? > > > > If this road is taken, it has to be determined which env. > > variables have to be refered to in what order. AFAIK, SUS and POSIX say > > that it's implementation-dependent. > > Too bad the POSIX spec is closed so I can't check. I've decided to go > ahead and do this and follow the glibc convention; that's based on the > principle of least surprise -- it would be very surprising to users when > the same font name generated different results in different applications. [offtopic] Actually, the latest version of the POSIX/Single Unix spec is freely available online, though it can be a little hard to find. http://www.unix-systems.org/version3/online.html (registration is involved, which gives you an URL you can bookmark.) As far as the question at hand; I think that giving up and using a default value or no value is fine if setlocale() hasn't been called. But I don't see any problems with checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG... it might be a nice touch. Regards, Owen _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
