Xorg locales

Daniel Stone daniel.stone at canonical.com
Sun Nov 28 12:21:25 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 12:52 +0100, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote:
> Except for one problem: locales. Or better: Xorg locales. I'm using ion3
> as the window manager and I get the following every time it starts:
> 
> >> XSupportsLocale() failed.
> >> Reverting locale settings to "C".
> 
> my locale is set to the following:
> 
> LANG=
> LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> [...]
> 
> As a consequence, I cannot use any special characters (german umlauts, any
> russian letter) in TKabber (a tcl/tk jabber client). Alas I don't have any
> clue, which part of the installation has gone wrong. The locales have been
> generated BTW.

Yeah, it's a bug in X.Org, and will be fixed later on in the week.





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