Wine and locales
David Lee Lambert
lamber45 at cse.msu.edu
Wed Jul 28 23:31:56 CDT 2004
Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
>I still want your patch to be removed until you at least
>write test cases showing what exactly APIs are affected
>by system/user locale. Using LC_CTYPE for the system
>default locale (current ANSI code page) is very dubious
>choice as well. The whole purpose and the patch itself
>are pure hacks aimed to fix unexplaned side effects.
>
>
I think it would be best to set the codepage for an app in the
[AppDefaults] section. Codepages are deprecated in favor of full
Unicode support, but specific apps might use ANSI APIs, and might even
expect certain locales. For instance, Quattro Pro 9 appears to parse
text from the clipboard and from ODBC calls as CP437 on my WinME boxes.
By the way, I think a system-wide /etc/wine.conf should be brought back
before the 1.0 release.
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