Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

[Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>]

2009/10/29 Jon TURNEY:
> I've put a patch in bugzilla [1] which can be applied to
> /usr/share/X11/locale to temporarily repair this problem.
>
> This needs to be looked at more deeply, though, as I'm not sure I've fully
> understood what that locale data is being used for, or specified C.UTF-8
> correctly.
>
> [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10870

I think the patch makes plenty of sense in mapping C.UTF-8 to
en_US.UTF-8, because most other UTF-8 locales are also mapped to
en_US.UTF-8, i.e. from X's perspective they're not actually
language-specific.

More generally, there's the issue that Cygwin allows any combination
of language and charset, whereas X has a fixed list of permitted
combinations. Cygwin also supports many charsets that aren't supported
by X (and vice versa). In particular, X only supports a few of the
Windows/DOS codepages. But I guess unsupported locales will just have
to be a case of "don't do that"?

Andy

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