Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:58:58 +0800 From: Yang Guilong Reply-To: Yang Guilong To: "Gerrit @ cygwin.com" Subject: Re: cygwin locale broken? (was: Re: gnome 2.8.0 and external dependencies) In-Reply-To: <97654690525.20040930173628@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <274233419.20040915234721@familiehaase.de> <4159BD25.7040700@users.sourceforge.net> <415A112E.20808@familiehaase.de> <415AE19A.1010306@familiehaase.de> <97654690525.20040930173628@familiehaase.de> Hi, Gerrit On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:36:28 +0200, Gerrit P. Haase 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/