Subj : Re: Need volonteers to test another patch
To   : Vitaliy Aksyonov
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Mon Mar 25 2024 09:18 pm

Hi Vitaliy,

On 2024-03-25 11:09:34, you wrote to me:

 VA>>> This is exactly how I saw it on my computer, when was using
 VA>>> pseudo-graphics with wrong or missing locale.
 WvV>> The locale is there, so is it wrong?

 VA> I have no idea. It looks correct. But output looks like ncurses uses incorrect
 VA> locale.

It seems so.

 WvV>>>> It doesn't matter if I use luit or not, they are displayed the
 WvV>>>> same. Also the ~A characters for messages with CHRS: CP437 in
 WvV>>>> the german areas are still there.

 VA> Remind me. Do you have XLAT conversion table from cp437 to cp850?

Yes.

 VA>>> In some message I saw en_EN.CP850.

 WvV>> The localdef command, created the directory with lowercase 'cp850'
 WvV>> although I specified it with uppercase 'CP850'. It also shows it
 WvV>> with
 WvV>> lowercase 'cp' when locale -a is executed. So I switched to specifying
 WvV>> it as lowercase in my golded start script. But case probably doesn't
 WvV>> matter.

 VA> No, I mean that i saw you using en_*EN*.cp850, not en_*US*.cp850. That is
 VA> important.

O, sorry, I didn't notice the "_EN"...

That was what I first tried, but that made no sense, since I don't have any en_EN* locales at all (there are the en_GB* locales though).

 WvV>> wilnux5:/home/fido/log # locale
 WvV>> LANG=POSIX
 WvV>> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
 VA>                      ^^^^^
 VA> This is not correct

Ok.

 VA> Make sure that all LC_-s are en_US.cp850. Especially LC_CTYPE.

Ok that did the trick! Just setting LC_CTYPE=en_US.cp850 is enough. So now I have the following line for starting golded:

sudo -u fido LC_CTYPE=en_US.cp850 luit -encoding 'CP850' /usr/local/bin/golded -f

The linedrawing characters, and the german characters (with @CHRS: CP437) are ok too!

So this:

# sudo -u fido LC_CTYPE=en_US.cp850 locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE=en_US.cp850
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

Seems enough to get the right output from golded!?


Bye, Wilfred.

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