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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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