Martin Vermeer wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 00:42 +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) >> writes: >> >> | To be quite honest I belive we should revert messages.C to the simple >> | state it was in before this summers meeting. >> >> But this is me being grumpy again. Just ignore it. > > Actually I am a bit afraid that have a kernel of truth there.
This seems indeed to be the case. > OTOH we cannot really go back there, as all newer Linux installations > have a utf-8 locale nowadays. The cutting off of the encoding suffix is > necessary as long as LyX is non-unicode. Also true. But I have to admit that I don't understand the current machinery. For example, why not simply strip the suffix from the environment variables once on program start, set the new environment variables and leave the frontend code as it was before Paris? Georg
