C Hennessy wrote:
> David Rysdam wrote:
> >
> > Disclaimer: I am neither an i18n NOR a Motif expert.
> Neither am I :-)
>
> > _XmStringGetCurrentCharset appears to have the wrong behavior. It
> > checks the env variable LANG and (with a few exceptions) returns it as
> > the current charset. But, as I understand it, a lang and a charset are
> > not interchangeable. For instance, the LANG en_US uses the charset
> > ISO8859--but so does the lang en_DE (or whatever German is).
> >
> > Can anyone confirm that this is a LessTif issue?
>
> Have you seen a difference in behaviour of your application that might
> be
> explained by the lesstif code ?
>
> CP
Yes, but explaining the whole story will only confuse the issue. Instead
I'll explain a small part: Our code (for good or bad) calls
_XmStringGetCurrentCharset and does some conditional processing based on the
reply. On RedHat 6.0 with LessTif (including the most recent version of
LessTif), I get back "ISO8859-1. On RedHat 6.1, I get back "en_US". Check
/etc/sysconfig/i18n and /etc/profile.d/lang.*
"Real" Motif (1.2) on both platforms (6.0 and 6.1) behaves as I expected.
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about i18n/l10n to put in a workaround.
I'll have to release note this issue as a LessTif bug unless someone can
give me a better idea.
