X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

[Jon TURNEY]

On 28/10/2009 14:22, Ken Brown wrote:
> X11R7.5 doesn't like the (default) locale C.UTF-8.  If I start the
> server 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.

Thanks for the bug report.

I'm afraid I'm not immediately able to reproduce this, though, using the 
command you give.

On 28/10/2009 21:49, Andy Koppe wrote:
 > Xwin 1.6.x had no problem with "C.UTF-8".

The significant change is probably that libX11 is no longer built with 
X_LOCALE (so that libX11 uses the native locale support rather than it's own).
Exactly why this would cause a problem, I don't know.

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