4:10 a.m.
Default GNOME user in Fedora 9:
$ env|grep LANG
LANG=en_US.utf8
GDM_LANG=en_US.utf8
Logging in as superuser:
$ su -
# env|grep LANG
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Switching back to normal user:
# su - user
$ env|grep LANG
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
The difference in the spelling of the codeset breaks Sylpheed (#450063)
which only looks for codeset "UTF-8". Now where again is it defined
that both are valid spellings for the codeset?
$ locale -a|grep utf8|wc -l
230
$ locale -a|grep UTF-8|wc -l
2
4:22 a.m.
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:10:59AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
The difference in the spelling of the codeset breaks Sylpheed
(#450063)
which only looks for codeset "UTF-8". Now where again is it defined
that both are valid spellings for the codeset?
Then Sylpheed is just broken. It shouldn't look at the locale name,
but instead at nl_langinfo (CODESET) (the same can be queried from
locale -k LC_CTYPE | grep ^charmap=
).
And, no matter what spelling you use in the .* part of locale name
in environment, CODESET is the same:
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 locale -k LC_CTYPE | grep charmap
charmap="UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 locale -k LC_CTYPE | grep charmap
charmap="UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8 locale -k LC_CTYPE | grep charmap
charmap="UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF_8 locale -k LC_CTYPE | grep charmap
charmap="UTF-8"
Jakub
4:32 a.m.
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 05:22 -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:10:59AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> The difference in the spelling of the codeset breaks Sylpheed (#450063)
> which only looks for codeset "UTF-8". Now where again is it defined
> that both are valid spellings for the codeset?
Then Sylpheed is just broken. It shouldn't look at the locale name,
but instead at nl_langinfo (CODESET) (the same can be queried from
locale -k LC_CTYPE | grep ^charmap=
).
And, no matter what spelling you use in the .* part of locale name
in environment, CODESET is the same:
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 locale -k LC_CTYPE | grep charmap
charmap="UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 locale -k LC_CTYPE | grep charmap
charmap="UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8 locale -k LC_CTYPE | grep charmap
charmap="UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF_8 locale -k LC_CTYPE | grep charmap
charmap="UTF-8"
Jakub
Sounds sane, though I faced very similar problem with Evolution some
time back, when my e-mail written in Czech (with diacritic marks) was
delivered broken - because only Evolution was able to tell what utf8
charset actually is... Of course, manually setting it to UTF-8 fixed the
issue... I wondered whether the problem was due to wrong setting after
upgrading to Fedora 9 or something else, but I didn't pursued the issue
further.
Martin
4:57 a.m.
On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:32:03 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
Sounds sane, though I faced very similar problem with Evolution some
time back, when my e-mail written in Czech (with diacritic marks) was
delivered broken - because only Evolution was able to tell what utf8
charset actually is... Of course, manually setting it to UTF-8 fixed the
issue... I wondered whether the problem was due to wrong setting after
upgrading to Fedora 9 or something else, but I didn't pursued the issue
further.
What I remember is that "utf8" and "UTF-8" are equivalent when
setting the locale, but internally the codeset is "UTF-8" only.
The list of supported values is returned by
$ locale -m|grep -i utf
UTF-8
which is what to use in string-comparison after querying nl_langinfo(CODESET).
4:34 a.m.
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 05:22:51 -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:10:59AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> The difference in the spelling of the codeset breaks Sylpheed (#450063)
> which only looks for codeset "UTF-8". Now where again is it defined
> that both are valid spellings for the codeset?
Then Sylpheed is just broken. It shouldn't look at the locale name,
but instead at nl_langinfo (CODESET) (the same can be queried from
locale -k LC_CTYPE | grep ^charmap=
).
Thanks. Found it already while skimming over setlocale(3).
2:39 p.m.
Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)gmail.com> writes:
Default GNOME user in Fedora 9:
$ env|grep LANG
LANG=en_US.utf8
GDM_LANG=en_US.utf8
Session setup seems to be broken in F-9; e.g. compare output of
| ssh `hostname` set
on F-9 and F-8 host. A similar defect seems to happen when xfce4 is
started from kdm: on F-9, profile settings ($LANG, $PATH) are missing
for applications started by panel applets or by A-F2.
Enrico
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