Around 17 o'clock on Aug 12, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

> Please do not do that.  It will make the life of developers miserable
> (would *you* think of asking about the user's locale upon receiving a
> bug report you cannot reproduce?).

But the alternative is to require custom configuration for every user --
consider a system supporting both Japanese and Korean users, there cannot
be a single default 'sans' font which can optimally display both of these
languages.  Using LC_CTYPE gives the system a chance to select the right 
font without requiring customization.

Even in western environments, it's easy to believe that the best font for
German users will be different from that for Czech users; the coverage of 
preferred font for German might well be missing Z WITH CARON.

I don't think I can discard this useful hint even though it will probably 
present "interesting" problems in some debugging situations.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab


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