From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 16 19:29:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA04428 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 19:29:01 -0700 Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [144.206.136.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA04423 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 19:28:55 -0700 Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA10078 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Tue, 17 Oct 1995 05:28:36 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Tue, 17 Oct 95 05:28:36 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by ache.dialup.demos.ru (8.6.11/8.6.9) id FAA01047; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 05:13:56 +0300 To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org References: <199510170159.VAA25639@exalt.x.org> In-Reply-To: <199510170159.VAA25639@exalt.x.org>; from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Mon, 16 Oct 1995 21:59:52 EST Message-Id: Organization: Olahm Ha-Yetzirah Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 05:13:55 +0300 (MSK) X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.40 FreeBSD] From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) X-Class: Fast Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Lines: 34 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1447 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199510170159.VAA25639@exalt.x.org> Kaleb S. KEITHLEY writes: >> 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. startup_locale does nothing expect loading of tables. The same tables as in your case. But internal ctype structure is very different comparing SVR4 f.e. It is play role here. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3 : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849