Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Matthew Burgess wrote:
>> Thomas Trepl wrote:
>>
>>> Mr. Patrakov asked me to put a small list of
>>> combinations of LC_ALL/LANG to that list here.
>>
>>
>> I'm quite sure he wouldn't have pointed you to the
wrong list. BLFS,
>> not LFS, installs fluxbox. Please report this to
blfs-dev or (probably
>> better) [email protected] instead.
>
> No. I meant lfs-dev.
>
> I suspected that the new text about locales at
>
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.1/chapter07/profile.html
is
> still wrong. Judging from the message, it is evident
that Thomas Trepl
> has never tried [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(case-sensitive), LC_ALL
> unset (that's what the book recommends now). If that
works, there is no
> need to change the text. My testing here shows that
X accepts such
> locale name.
No that doesn't work. Setting the LANG to the value
above and unsetting
LC_ALL makes the menue text invisible (with a lot of
error messages while X
startup). Removing the "@euro" part, makes all
visible.
>
> Background: glibc treats charset names in the locale
names
> case-insensitively and ignores hyphens. So,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] are the same thing for
glibc. But not for
> applications/libraries that parse locale names
themselves, without the
> help from glibc. Xlib is one of those picky
libraries, and fluxbox is
> just a victim. LFS should provide readers with the
means to guess the
> locale name that will be accepted by such picky
packages.
>
--
Cheers,
Thomas (Moody) Trepl
LFS User #3076, ttrepl at yahoo dot de
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