Make wine honor LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Shachar Shemesh" <wine-devel at shemesh.biz> wrote:

> >Well, I had read glibc sources and it's definitely ignores LC_CTYPE.
> >  
> >
> Maybe there is no part of glibc that cares what encoding it is. I can 
> tell you with authority that X does look at it, as does less, konsole, 
> kedit, and almost any other application I have ever run.

Sure they do, because they handle keyboard input on their own.

> >No, it shouldn't. Again, I'd ask to use LANG or LC_ALL for that purpose,
> >you can't have LANG and LC_TYPE point to different locales in a sane
> >manner anyway.
> >  
> >
> ?
> Docs says I can.
> Actual practice says I can (I do it all the time, as do many people in 
> Israel).
> Please elaborate on why you chose to call a documented behavior *that 
> works* "insane".

I explained it many times already: because you can't have different locales
for keyboard input, string collation and to/from unicode conversion routines.

-- 
Dmitry.