Wine and locales

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Alexandre Julliard" <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:

> I'm still not clear on what you are objecting to. Changing the system
> locale is not going to affect keyboard input or resources. Keyboard
> input will be affected because we now set the Unix codepage from
> LC_CTYPE too, is that your main objection?

Yes, that's the reason why LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES were removed from
the list of environment variables controlling Wine locale.

>  Or are you saying that we
> shouldn't even attempt to take into account the locale config because
> users get it wrong anyway?

We should not complicate things, especially since it's not clear at all
what APIs are affected by system/user locale differences.

-- 
Dmitry.