Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 22:38:45 -0500 From: Timothy Legant <thl@catseye.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl Doesn't like XFree-4.0.1 Message-ID: <20000908223845.A13879@skitty.catseye.net> In-Reply-To: <20000907235745S.rklosh@rkl.org>; from rklosh@rkl.org on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:57:45PM -0500 References: <20000907181039Y.rklosh@rkl.org> <00090521085201.35453@sniper.domtek.fr> <200009080207.UAA49324@harmony.village.org> <20000907235745S.rklosh@rkl.org>
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:57:45PM -0500, Ryan Losh wrote:
[snip...]
> I tested that (.xinitrc with *ONLY* a gnome-terminal), and again, I
> don't see the LC_CTYPE var getting set.
>
> I took it one step further: I did a startx with the following
> .xinitrc:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> ktrace gnome-session
>
> I looked for "en_US" in *EVERY* file that gets opened during a startx,
> and I discovered that "LC_CTYPE" and "en_US" are *HARDCODED* into the
> libgnomeui.so.4 file/shared library. I would say without reservation
> that "THIS is where the LC_CTYPE is being set." Therefore, I need to
> read the FreeBSD handbook and see how one goes about reporting a bug
> in the ports (gnomelibs-1.2.4, to be exact). I am not an expert, but
> I don't think that hardcoding this value in a shared library is "The
> Right Way To Get The Job Done (TM)"
I haven't looked at the GNOME source, so I can't speak to whether
they're hard-coding anything or not. However, whatever they're doing,
they seem to do *only* if you haven't explicitly set the i18n stuff in
your environment.
I had the same problem - practically every app running under
GNOME/XFree86 4.0.1/FreeBSD 4.1-S hollered about the locale. I finally
found the i18n section in the handbook (where else!), read it carefully
and opted for the preferred method of setting these variables, through
the login class.
I created an "american" class in /etc/login.conf (there is an example
"russian" class) and set my users' class (in master.passwd, using vipw)
to "american" (no quotes). I haven't seen the error message since. My
"american" class looks like this:
#
# American Users Accounts. Setup proper environment variables
#
american:American English Users:\
:charset=ISO-8859-1:\
:lang=en_US.ISO_8859-1:\
:tc=default:
Note that, according to the handbook and bolstered by my experience, all
you need to set are the "charset" and "lang" variables.
> Ryan
> rklosh@rkl.org
Hope this is of some help.
Tim
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Timothy H. Legant
thl@catseye.net
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