cygwin locale broken? (was: Re: gnome 2.8.0 and external dependencies)
Yang Guilong
yang.guilong@gmail.com
Fri Oct 1 03:59:00 GMT 2004
Hi, Gerrit
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:36:28 +0200, Gerrit P. Haase
<gerrit@familiehaase.de> wrote:
> Hi Yang,
>
> I switched this thread over to the main list.
>
> If there is no one fixing it then it will stay as it is, why is cygwin
> locale broken, what is broken, how to fix it? I don't want to patch 50
Sorry, I don't know the detail info about this implementation either.
> packages because some locale implementation is broken, better fix it
> once and forever?
As for cygnome2, just fixing gtk2 would resolve most problems,
as most packages uses gtk_set_locale(). Only a few packages
uses setlocale() directly.
>
> And if it is working for X it should not be too hard to get it working
> in Cygwin too.
Yes, I think so. But we need somebody to do this.
best regards
Yang Guilong
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