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Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8



On 10/28/2009 5:23 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
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).

Maybe my terminology is wrong. But if you start mintty with no .minttyrc and with LANG unset, mintty will set LANG=C.UTF-8. Trying to then start the X server via startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh leads to the error I reported. The error did not occur in X11R7.4.

There's been a lot of discussion in the various cygwin lists leading to the decision that C.UTF-8 should be the default.

Ken

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