Re: locale names in glibc and XFree86

2000-12-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:20:00PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > BC> It would be nice if Xlibs used the same format file (and even > BC> better if it could just symlink and use that exact file). > > Impossible for licencing reasons: we cannot use GPL'd code in XFree86 > (and we support a numb

Re: locale names in glibc and XFree86

2000-12-10 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
BC> It would be nice if Xlibs used the same format file (and even BC> better if it could just symlink and use that exact file). Impossible for licencing reasons: we cannot use GPL'd code in XFree86 (and we support a number of systems that don't use glibc).

Re: locale names in glibc and XFree86

2000-12-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:20:00PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > BC> It would be nice if Xlibs used the same format file (and even > BC> better if it could just symlink and use that exact file). > > Impossible for licencing reasons: we cannot use GPL'd code in XFree86 > (and we support a num

Re: locale names in glibc and XFree86

2000-12-10 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
BC> It would be nice if Xlibs used the same format file (and even BC> better if it could just symlink and use that exact file). Impossible for licencing reasons: we cannot use GPL'd code in XFree86 (and we support a number of systems that don't use glibc).

Re: locale names in glibc and XFree86

2000-12-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 08:04:29PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > Ben, can you point me to one so I can write up a patch and send it upstream > > before 4.0.2 is tagged? This is pretty important for people who are choosy > > about their locales. > > > > /etc/locale.alias > > It would be nic

Re: locale names in glibc and XFree86

2000-12-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 08:04:29PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > Ben, can you point me to one so I can write up a patch and send it upstream > > before 4.0.2 is tagged? This is pretty important for people who are choosy > > about their locales. > > > > /etc/locale.alias > > It would be ni

Re: locale names in glibc and XFree86

2000-12-09 Thread Ben Collins
> > Ben, can you point me to one so I can write up a patch and send it upstream > before 4.0.2 is tagged? This is pretty important for people who are choosy > about their locales. > /etc/locale.alias It would be nice if Xlibs used the same format file (and even better if it could just symlink

Re: locale names in glibc and XFree86

2000-12-09 Thread Ben Collins
> > Ben, can you point me to one so I can write up a patch and send it upstream > before 4.0.2 is tagged? This is pretty important for people who are choosy > about their locales. > /etc/locale.alias It would be nice if Xlibs used the same format file (and even better if it could just symlink

locale names in glibc and XFree86

2000-12-09 Thread Branden Robinson
Some folks have been reporting problems of this kind: Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C This happens because glibc's idea of canonical locale names differs from XFree86's. For instance, "en_US.iso-8859-1" is recognized by glibc but not by XFree86. XFree86 uses the following

locale names in glibc and XFree86

2000-12-09 Thread Branden Robinson
Some folks have been reporting problems of this kind: Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C This happens because glibc's idea of canonical locale names differs from XFree86's. For instance, "en_US.iso-8859-1" is recognized by glibc but not by XFree86. XFree86 uses the followin