Make wine honor LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry at baikal.ru
Mon Jul 26 19:57:06 CDT 2004


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

> >I explained it many times already: because you can't have different locales
> >for keyboard input, string collation and to/from unicode conversion routines.
> >
> >  
> >
> Ok, it seems that we are walking around in circles here.
> 
> Windows has it. Just set system locale to one thing (code page, to/from 
> unicode), and user locale to something else (collation).
> Unix has it (LC_COLLATION and LC_CTYPE).
> Why shouldn't wine?

I still didn't hear from you from you are calling user locale in Windows,
that's the source of misunderstanding I guess.

> Even if you are right that it leads to insanity (and I do understand why 
> you say that, at least for the codepage and collation collision. If 
> there are any other cases of insanity, do tell), aren't we supposed to 
> be bug-compatible with Windows?

No, if there is no applications depending on it.

-- 
Dmitry.




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