Re: GNOME CVS: gtk+ timur

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:

> Is LC_ALL preferred over LC_CTYPE on non-broken systems?  If so, you
> should probably test for the brokenness in configure.in, instead of
> using LC_CTYPE when LC_ALL is preferred in some cases... 

This should only come in to play on broken systems anyways.
(Those that don't have LC_MESSAGES.) The point of the change
is in that place we need a single locale string, and 
setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL) unpredictably produces strings
like "C C C C C" or "de_dE;de_DE;de_DE;de_DE".

> > * gtk/gtkrc.c (gtk_rc_init): It was reported by Owen Taylor
> > <otaylor@redhat.com>, that LC_ALL produce unparsable garbage
> > on some glibc'ed systems and HP/UX. So, falling to LC_CTYPE.

Regards,
                                        Owen