Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-27 Thread Phil Blundell
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 07:37, Junichi Uekawa wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:20:52 +0100 Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can symlink usr/lib/locale/ja_JP-C@utf-8 and setting locale to LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 seems to allow whiptail-utf8 to do its thing.

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Phil Blundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit: Having the symlink there seems to reduce the number of hacks considerably. It might be the way to go. I don't know that it's worth changing things at this stage just to reduce the number of hacks. If the current code works, that's

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Junichi Uekawa wrote on Wed Feb 27, 2002 um 10:20:55PM: I don't know that it's worth changing things at this stage just to reduce the number of hacks. If the current code works, that's good enough for me. If it works, that's fine by me, too. Can we actually get a

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-26 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 00:31, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Note: I have not gotten evil enough to rename the utf8 version of newt library soname. Oh. Wasn't the fact that the utf8 and non-utf8 libnewts shared the same soname the cause of all our original problems with flashing screens? p. -- To

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Philip Blundell wrote on Mon Feb 25, 2002 um 09:54:51PM: I'm not completely convinced about these two. That sounds to me like your whiptail is still not fully UTF-8 enabled. It seems that it has problems on detecting that it is in UTF-8 mode. I tried setting: LANG=C@utf-8

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Junichi Uekawa wrote on Tue Feb 26, 2002 um 09:37:11AM: - to not break non-ASCII chars, LANG must be either C or a valid xx_YY.UTF-8 locale I think LANG=C will cause the dialog boxes to have ??? chars It works in uxterm: set LANG=C but LC_CTYPE to a valid utf-8

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-26 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:31, Eduard Bloch wrote: It seems that it has problems on detecting that it is in UTF-8 mode. I tried setting: LANG=C@utf-8 (valid, existing) LC_CTYPE=C@utf-8 (valid, existing, for whiptail-utf8) LC_MESAGES=de_DE.UTF-8 (just a string, parsed and used by modconf)

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-26 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:31, Eduard Bloch wrote: It is only needed as LC_MESSAGES to enable usage of utf8-converted string files. If whiptail-utf8 also needs the value (though it should NOT depend on it), this may cause our trouble. By the way, another fix would be for someone to actually

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Phil Blundell wrote on Tue Feb 26, 2002 um 11:34:49AM: Try the patch to modconf that I sent you yesterday (unsetting LC_MESSAGES before calling whiptail). I think it will fix this. With that change, I was able to run modconf successfully in a UTF-8 xterm using

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-26 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Phil Blundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit: Note: I have not gotten evil enough to rename the utf8 version of newt library soname. Oh. Wasn't the fact that the utf8 and non-utf8 libnewts shared the same soname the cause of all our original problems with flashing screens? It

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-26 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit: Is there a paranoid check for the string type of LC_MESSAGES? Even then it should not break it LC_CTYPE is set to a properl utf8 locale, like to C@utf-8 in BFs. I really don't understand what C@utf-8 is, really. Is it something similar

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-26 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 15:06, Junichi Uekawa wrote: I really don't understand what C@utf-8 is, really. It's like the C locale in all respects except that it uses the UTF-8 character set rather than ASCII. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Junichi Uekawa wrote on Wed Feb 27, 2002 um 12:10:25PM: I've had some experimentation, and I found that I understood a few things wrongly, but here is a summary of what I found out: I can symlink usr/lib/locale/ja_JP-C@utf-8 and setting locale to LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-26 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:20:52 +0100 Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can symlink usr/lib/locale/ja_JP-C@utf-8 and setting locale to LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 seems to allow whiptail-utf8 to do its thing. Maybe dynamic symlinking after language is chosen / or include

Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Junichi Uekawa wrote on Mon Feb 25, 2002 um 10:38:43PM: else export USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER := false +export LC := true endif ... Looks wrong. Is wrong, copied too much. I have also found the other problem. But here is now another problem: the i18n build does no

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-25 Thread Phil Blundell
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 16:41, Eduard Bloch wrote: Is wrong, copied too much. I have also found the other problem. But here is now another problem: the i18n build does no longer fit on the 1200 disk. I tried to hack the build system to use less languages on the 1200 disks, but it is nothing but

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Phil Blundell wrote on Mon Feb 25, 2002 um 04:47:21PM: disks, but it is nothing but ugly, and still was not sucessfull. So is anyone really interessted in keeping 1200kB version alive? If yes, come and help, otherwise we shold drop this subflavor. We talked about this

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Phil Blundell wrote on Mon Feb 25, 2002 um 04:47:21PM: disks, but it is nothing but ugly, and still was not sucessfull. So is anyone really interessted in keeping 1200kB version alive? If yes, come and help, otherwise we shold drop this subflavor. We talked about this

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-25 Thread Philip Blundell
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 18:16, Eduard Bloch wrote: - modconf call must get a proper locale, like de_DE.UTF-8. Phil, could you have a look? I haven't had a chance to test this yet but I think it should be somewhere near right. Setting LANG=C@utf-8 may not be necessary (LC_CTYPE is already

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Philip Blundell wrote on Mon Feb 25, 2002 um 08:29:47PM: I haven't had a chance to test this yet but I think it should be somewhere near right. Setting LANG=C@utf-8 may not be necessary It is not necessary, and it even hurts. I tries different locale settings. Summary: -

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-25 Thread Philip Blundell
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 21:40, Eduard Bloch wrote: - to not break non-ASCII chars, LANG must be either C or a valid xx_YY.UTF-8 locale - LC_CTYPE must be a valid locale string (or I am misguided by the whiptail bug, see below) I'm not completely convinced about these two. That sounds

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-25 Thread Philip Blundell
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 21:40, Eduard Bloch wrote: - to not break non-ASCII chars, LANG must be either C or a valid xx_YY.UTF-8 locale - LC_CTYPE must be a valid locale string (or I am misguided by the whiptail bug, see below) - LC_MESSAGES is used by modconf. It should contain a _, .

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-25 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit: Yup. I attached the modified version, it does set all tree values. Though there is a problem with whiptail-utf8: $ ldd /usr/bin/whiptail | grep newt libnewt.so.0.50 = /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.50 (0x40028000) Note: I have not

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-25 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Philip Blundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit: On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 21:40, Eduard Bloch wrote: - to not break non-ASCII chars, LANG must be either C or a valid xx_YY.UTF-8 locale I think LANG=C will cause the dialog boxes to have ??? chars - LC_CTYPE must be a valid

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-25 Thread Philip Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 00:37, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Is it possible to satisfy them with a symlink ? Yeah, probably. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]