[17123] in Athena Bugs
Re: Netscape 4.61 vs. 4.x language problem.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Sep 1 12:29:08 1999
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:28:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, John Hawkinson wrote:
> | Thanks! This is not a setting I'd ever fiddled with, so I hadn't noticed.
> |
> | Parsing the line to remove the language names is probably beyond the scope
> | of netscape-fix, so I'll just set it to clear the old setting out.
>
> Err, the implication is that this would require everyone to set
> the language preference by hand, as Sara ended up doing.
>
> Is that really acceptable?
Not especially, no, but if the alternative is a crash every time someone
goes into the language settings, it may have to do. I mean, I suppose I
could put in a special case in netscape-fix to detect and parse that one
particular line. I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble, especially since
I don't know how many people have customized their language settings.
At any rate, I can look into that. Zeroing out the line is the quick
interim fix, one which doesn't even involve modifying the script at all. I
don't necessarily suggest that it be permanent.
-Todd
