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Re: cygwin locale broken? (was: Re: gnome 2.8.0 and external dependencies)
- From: Yang Guilong <yang dot guilong at gmail dot com>
- To: "Gerrit @ cygwin.com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:58:58 +0800
- Subject: Re: cygwin locale broken? (was: Re: gnome 2.8.0 and external dependencies)
- References: <274233419.20040915234721@familiehaase.de> <4159BD25.7040700@users.sourceforge.net> <415A112E.20808@familiehaase.de> <ff6a257b04092907164e9ad570@mail.gmail.com> <415AE19A.1010306@familiehaase.de> <ff6a257b04093008014865bb99@mail.gmail.com> <97654690525.20040930173628@familiehaase.de>
- Reply-to: Yang Guilong <yang dot guilong at gmail dot com>
Hi, Gerrit
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:36:28 +0200, Gerrit P. Haase
<gerrit@familiehaase.de> wrote:
> Hi Yang,
>
> I switched this thread over to the main list.
>
> If there is no one fixing it then it will stay as it is, why is cygwin
> locale broken, what is broken, how to fix it? I don't want to patch 50
Sorry, I don't know the detail info about this implementation either.
> packages because some locale implementation is broken, better fix it
> once and forever?
As for cygnome2, just fixing gtk2 would resolve most problems,
as most packages uses gtk_set_locale(). Only a few packages
uses setlocale() directly.
>
> And if it is working for X it should not be too hard to get it working
> in Cygwin too.
Yes, I think so. But we need somebody to do this.
best regards
Yang Guilong
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