locale in uclibc

Peter S. Mazinger ps.m at gmx.net
Fri Sep 9 19:27:40 UTC 2005


On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Chien-Yu Chen wrote:

> I compiled buildroot with i18n support...
> then compiled Xfree86 4.5, then firefox
> 
> however, when I tried to startx firefox, it's telling me something like this
> 
> gdk: locale not supported, setting to C
> gdk: can not set locale modifier

seems that glib and/or gtk+ was not built against a locale enabled uClibc
or the locale chosen does not have correct syntax

for LANG/LC_ALL
en_US.UTF-8
de_DE.ISO-8859-1

> 
> the failing function call that generate this is
> 
> XSupportsLocale() in xlib
> X was compiled with the buildroot patch....so...
> 
> I have tried to set all the LC stuff to both C, or POSIX...but still
> not working..
> was wondering if because the char map is not set up right or something
> in that direction
> 
> thanks for any comment
> 
> chen
> 
> On 9/9/05, Manuel Novoa III <mjn3 at codepoet.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:36:30PM -0800, Chien-Yu Chen wrote:
> > >   I was wondering if there is any docs on locales in uclibc....I am
> > > still having trouble getting firefox to run with some locale
> > > problem....thanks

extra/locale/README* is all you have iirc

> > 
> > I don't recall writing any docs.  What kinds of problems are you seeing?
> > 
> > Manuel
> > 
> 
> 
> 

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