Pixmaps and LANG environ variable

[Michael Lausch <mla gams co at>]

The story:
After upgrading from redhat 4.2 to redhat 5.1 the stock-demo in the
libgnomeui looked funny. All pixmap derived images had the correct
shape, but were just black. After many recompiles, i cleaned out my
install directories and started from the beginning. Still no
change. Then i remembered an odd bug in older SCO unix systems with
internationalization and i realized that my LANG environment variable
is set to de_DE or de_AT (depending on what i'm doing). Unsetting the
variable brings back the images.

Conclusion:
Something in the xpm parser is foul. I suspect the parsing of the
color table or anything else. I'll try to take a closer look into
this but i don't know if i'm able to find this bug.
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