From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 16 19:00:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA03438 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 19:00:30 -0700 Received: from expo.x.org (expo.x.org [198.112.45.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA03433 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 19:00:26 -0700 Received: from exalt.x.org by expo.x.org id AA11674; Mon, 16 Oct 95 21:59:54 -0400 Received: from localhost by exalt.x.org id VAA25639; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 21:59:53 -0400 Message-Id: <199510170159.VAA25639@exalt.x.org> To: ache@astral.msk.su Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 17 Oct 1995 04:25:24 EST. Organization: X Consortium Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 21:59:52 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In message <199510170105.VAA25559@exalt.x.org> Kaleb S. KEITHLEY > writes: > > >> I know. And it is so when you don't have LANG or your char width > 8bits. > >> When you have LANG and your char width <= 8bits and you have > >> ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE variable set, lets call this case as > >> "ANSI extention". As you can see, this extention is well-controlled > >> by ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE. > > >And this marvelous "extension" breaks programs, as you've found with > >the XFree86 xterm. > > Well, shure, it seems that you not expect that propogating code > table to 8859-1 BREAKS XTERM in the same way! Because when LANG > set to 8859-1 our cases are equal! I don't believe this. If this were true then all the XFree86 users in Europe would be screaming bloody murder; probably even more than they were prior to XFree86 3.1.1, when the i18n aware xterm was introduced. -- Kaleb