X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Ken Brown wrote:

> X11R7.5 doesn't like the (default) locale C.UTF-8.  If I start the server

technically speaking, there's "no such locale" as C.UTF-8,
so I'd not expect portable code to accept it ("C" and "UTF-8" are
mutually exclusive).

> with 'LANG=C.UTF-8 /usr/bin/startxwin.bat', the server exits immediately, and 
> the log has complaints about the locale.  If I instead use 
> 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8', there's no problem.  I've attached both logs and cygcheck 
> output.

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