On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Keith Packard wrote:
> Ok, so now what do I do with applications which haven't called
> setlocale (LC_ALL, "")? Do I:
>
> a) call setlocal (LC_ALL, "") myself?
I'm afraid this can have an unexpected side effect, which could
surprise/upset some application program developers.
> 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. Since XF86 is used with many OS',
it'd be best to follow the 'local' convention. Then, I don't know how
to figure it out without calling setlocale(LC_CTYPE,""). In case of Glibc,
If $LC_ALL is set, use it
else if $LC_CTYPE is set, use it
else if $LANG is set, use it.
> c) Ignore the locale information and leave the
> font language preference unset?
This might well be the best course along with documenting
that setlocale() should be called to make font matching/selection locale
dependent or that better still is to explicitly provide lang info when
invoking font selection APIs.
Jungshik
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