Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 05:13:55 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org> Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Message-ID: <dlZ5nWmq04@ache.dialup.demos.ru> In-Reply-To: <199510170159.VAA25639@exalt.x.org>; from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Mon, 16 Oct 1995 21:59:52 EST References: <199510170159.VAA25639@exalt.x.org>
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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.
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