Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 21:59:52 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org> To: ache@astral.msk.su Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Message-ID: <199510170159.VAA25639@exalt.x.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 17 Oct 1995 04:25:24 EST. <Xl4OmWmeo3@ache.dialup.demos.ru>
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> 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
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