internationalisation problem

[Harold L Hunt II]

Uwe,

Let me just say that I have no idea.  I hope that somebody else will 
look into this.

Harold

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> I'm using a programm under XFree86 that supports internationalized menus.
> Therefore I need gettext, but with the actual version
> 0.12.5-1 the XWindows-menus aren't displayed correct.
> I reported this problem to the gnu mailinglist and they answerd me the
> following:
> 
> --- original message ---
> 
>>I just updated libintl2 to 0.12.1-3 and now german umlauts in the menus
>>and windows are no longer displayed correct. For example "geändert" it is
>>displayed "ge"andert".
>>I'm using libintl2 under the latest cygwin and the latest gettext.
> 
> 
> This symptom occurs when the LC_CTYPE facet of the locale is not set.
> If your program does only
>    setlocale (LC_MESSAGES, "");
> then it's time to add a call
>    setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "");
> or do both of these in a single call:
>    setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
> --- end of message ---
> 
> I asked the developers of my program (LyX) but they set LC_CTYPE correct.
> So could this be a problem of cygwin/XFree86?
> 
> thanks Uwe
> 
>