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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:58:58 +0800
From: Yang Guilong <yang DOT guilong AT gmail DOT com>
Reply-To: Yang Guilong <yang DOT guilong AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Gerrit @ cygwin.com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygwin locale broken? (was: Re: gnome 2.8.0 and external dependencies)
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Hi, Gerrit

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:36:28 +0200, Gerrit P. Haase
<gerrit AT familiehaase DOT 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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