* Richard Curnow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-06-17 13:27 (CEST)]

Yes, yes, old thing, but I do reply this because I've been two
months offline (due to relocation) and is a question that raises 
in the list many times.

> ./configure --without-wc-funcs --enable-locales-fix --prefix=whatever --with-slang

> If I don't use --without-wc-funcs, the system's mbrtowc() and friends
> are used, which don't seem to play ball.  (In this case, the octal
> string comes from pager.c:1071).

> Presumably the system's mbrtowc() and isprint() are both saying "8th bit
> set is bad" based on something in the locale.  But what?  If I strace
> mutt, I can't even find any accesses being attempted to files in
> /usr/share/i18n/locale/...  or /usr/share/locale/..., which suggests
> glibc isn't even trying any locale lookups.

> BTW this is slackware 8.0, (glibc 2.2.3 I think), if anyone else is
> trying to experiment in this area.

> Anyway, problem solved (if not very elegantly).

FYI, and perhaps to improve a FAQ... I've had the very same
problem, and the very same dirty-hack did solve it, but then I
upgraded, and I thought that it wasn't nice to do that for every
upgrade/update, so... I looked for the real problem that is
written somewhere in the glibc-dev doc (IIRC). I haven't
correctly installed the new locales debian package, as glibc 2.2
introduced some little changes there (AFAIK). I did it the right
way and then I was unable to get the error back.

-- 
ais
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