"Shachar Shemesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Well, I had read glibc sources and it's definitely ignores LC_CTYPE. > > > > > Maybe there is no part of glibc that cares what encoding it is. I can > tell you with authority that X does look at it, as does less, konsole, > kedit, and almost any other application I have ever run.
Sure they do, because they handle keyboard input on their own. > >No, it shouldn't. Again, I'd ask to use LANG or LC_ALL for that purpose, > >you can't have LANG and LC_TYPE point to different locales in a sane > >manner anyway. > > > > > ? > Docs says I can. > Actual practice says I can (I do it all the time, as do many people in > Israel). > Please elaborate on why you chose to call a documented behavior *that > works* "insane". I explained it many times already: because you can't have different locales for keyboard input, string collation and to/from unicode conversion routines. -- Dmitry.
