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Re: xdvi unexplained locale problem
Dan Tsafrir wrote:
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Mike Ayers <mike_ayers@tvworks.com> wrote:
Dan Tsafrir wrote:
open xdvi, I get the following error message:
Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Try unsetting LOCPATH:
This didn't work either.
In fact, I tried unset-ing this and very many other env variables
before posting the question here.
I'm sorry, I must have left my telepathy switched off. Anything else that
you've tried that you'd like to mention now :-)
Looking at your cygcheck output some more, I notice you seem to have a lot of
old X DLLs in /usr/X11R6/bin/ (which should have been removed by setup, but
haven't been for some reason [in use when setup was run?]). Since xdvi is
still in /usr/X11R6/bin, this might well be causing a problem (the Windows
loader looks in the directory from which the application loaded to find DLLs
first, I think?)
It seems to me that the behavior is
unrelated to any env variables. It appears as though, for some
unexplained reason, somewhere along the way, xdvi or X think they need
to change to a locale other than C.
Googling the error messages shows that ubuntu users faced a similar
problem in early 2007 (related to xdvi and xfig):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/control-center/+bug/2066
I don't actually see the "locale not supported" warning anywhere in that bug
report, so I am unsure of it's relevance.
Some thought it was an xorg problem. The suggested workarounds (e.g.,
setting a LANG=C env var) don't work for me. Am I the only one that
gets this error message for xdvi on cygwin?
I'm sorry to say that, yes, you are abnormal :-) xdvi runs without this error
message for me.
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