Re: [dev] [dmenu] crashes with "warning: locale not supported" on fresh install of Xubuntu 16.04

[Silvan Jegen]

Hi

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Prashanth Chandra
 wrote:
> Correction in my last email.
>
> dmenu_run works when I do `LANG="en_US.UTF-8" dmenu_run`.

$ locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=

When I run dmenu (git tip) I don't have any issues.
$ ./dmenu_run

When I run dmenu_run with an unsupported locale, the following happens.

$ locale -a
C
en_US.utf8
POSIX


$ LANG="en_HK.UTF-8" ./dmenu_run
$ warning: no locale support

Meaning I get a warning but everything works nonetheless.

Are you sure that the dmenu menu bar is not opening for you?

I had a quick grep through the code and we are not using wchar_t or
one of the mb*/wc* functions once. IIRC, the locale should not make a
difference in that case.


Cheers,

Silvan

Re: [dev] [dmenu] crashes with "warning: locale not supported" on fresh install of Xubuntu 16.04

[Prashanth Chandra]

Correction in my last email.

dmenu_run works when I do `LANG="en_US.UTF-8" dmenu_run`.

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Prashanth Chandra
 wrote:
> My apologies.
>
> The exact problem is that dmenu_run prints "warning: locale not
> supported" then just hangs there, when my locale is set to en_HK.UTF-8
> (set with `sudo dpkg reconfigure locales`)
>
> As I mentioned, I'm running i3 in a fresh install of Xubuntu 16.04,
> with a fresh install of i3, no configuration whatsoever.
> It works as expected when I do `LANG="en_US.UTF-8"` so I don't think
> it has anything to do with the environment.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Prashanth

Re: [dev] [dmenu] crashes with "warning: locale not supported" on fresh install of Xubuntu 16.04

[Prashanth Chandra]

My apologies.

The exact problem is that dmenu_run prints "warning: locale not
supported" then just hangs there, when my locale is set to en_HK.UTF-8
(set with `sudo dpkg reconfigure locales`)

As I mentioned, I'm running i3 in a fresh install of Xubuntu 16.04,
with a fresh install of i3, no configuration whatsoever.
It works as expected when I do `LANG="en_US.UTF-8"` so I don't think
it has anything to do with the environment.

Warm Regards,
Prashanth

Re: [dev] [dmenu] crashes with "warning: locale not supported" on fresh install of Xubuntu 16.04

[Martin Kühne]

Not enough data for meaningful answer. You haven't described what
exactly the problem or your expectation is and in what environment
you're trying to run dmenu, like the desktop environment/window
manager. Did you configure dmenu to some extent, like passing command
line flags or even compile your own configuration?

cheers!
mar77i