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[gtk-list] Re: gtk bug or glibc locale bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Changwoo Ryu)
Fri Nov 6 10:45:18 1998
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
From: Changwoo Ryu <cwryu@adam.kaist.ac.kr>
Date: 07 Nov 1998 00:44:39 +0900
In-Reply-To: Owen Taylor's message of "06 Nov 1998 09:31:20 -0500"
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Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> writes:
> > Why does the current code set gtk_use_mb value by "C" locale, not by
> > current locale? I think it is a bug to be fixed.
>
> The question isn't whether the C library handle multi-byte locales,
> the question is whether it will, for single byte locales, correctly
> report a length of 1.
>
> GTK+ is currently completely innocent of all knowledge of what
> locales are single-byte or multi-byte, so all it can do
> is check in the one locale that it knows is single-byte, the
> "C" locale.
Yes, I really begin to understand. The `\xc0' check is needed to keep
1-byte locales from wrong mb* functions..
I should contact with wcsmbs author, or release a modified GTK+. And
wait the future GTK+, or glibc. :-)
BTW, why not take \xc0 test in compile time?
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