Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 00:31:24 -0500 (EST) From: mi@aldan.ziplink.net To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/2182: FreeBSD, XFree86-3.2, locales; russian/X.language Message-ID: <199612090531.AAA01510@rtfm.ziplink.net> Resent-Message-ID: <199612090540.VAA03162@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 2182
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: FreeBSD's and X-32's list of locales do not match
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Dec 8 21:40:04 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Mikhail Teterin
>Organization:
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386
>Environment:
>Description:
XFree86 has a list of locales, including ru_RU.KOI8-R.
FreeBSD's correspondent is ru_SU.KOI8-R (I am sure there
are other mismatches).
Nope, applying Alex Chernov's port from russian/X.language
does not help. IMHO the port is seriously broken. It does
not install all the files listed in pkg/PLIST and after
applying it there is no ${X11ROOT}/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias,
for example. Only locale.alias.bak. Whatever it installs
goes into misterious X11/nls , X11/locale becomes unusable.
I do not think there is a need for the port at all, because
XFree86 is supposed to handle displaying cyrillics on its
own. I am sure, however, the port will be usefull for
_entering_ koi-characters (currently, xterm beeps on my
attempts to type them).
IMO, the port of XFree86-3.2 (thanks, Jean-Marc) has to be
fixed to make sure ALL of the FreeBSD's locales have
correctly corresponding X-locales. Here is my list (after
I added the ru_SU.KOI8-R manually):
mi@rtfm:/usr/share/locale (1009) foreach l ( `\ls` )
foreach? (grep -q $l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias || \
grep -q $l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.dir ) || \
echo $l not present
foreach? end
lt_LN.ASCII not present
lt_LN.ISO_8859-1 not present
ru_SU.CP866 not present
us-ascii not present
>How-To-Repeat:
Install XFree86-3.2. setenv LANG ru_SU.KOI8-R; xterm
xterm will come up with no title. (I posted to Usenet about
this too, recently). If you install the current X.language
port xterm will not come up at all (as well as half of other
X-programs).
>Fix:
Add ru_SU.KOI8-R to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.*
manually for displaying. See what Alex has to say about
typing.
Another work-around is to admit that Russia is the same as
Soviet Union (question of one's beliefs) and ``setenv LANG
ru_RU.KOI8-R''.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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