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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