Subj : Re: Need volonteers to test another patch
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Vitaliy Aksyonov
Date : Mon Mar 25 2024 11:09:34

Hello Wilfred.

25 Mar 24 15:13, you wrote to me:

 WvV>>> locale: en_US.cp850     directory: /usr/lib/locale/en_US.cp850
 VA>> This is what you need. Good.
 WvV>>> But golded output is borked now, in my current utf-8 configured
 WvV>>> putty
 WvV>>> terminal:
 WvV>>> https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/2a5c7f2fbdc4
 VA>> This is exactly how I saw it on my computer, when was using
 VA>> pseudo-graphics with wrong or missing locale.
 WvV> The locale is there, so is it wrong?

I have no idea. It looks correct. But output looks like ncurses uses incorrect locale.

 WvV>>> It doesn't matter if I use luit or not, they are displayed the
 WvV>>> same. Also the ~A characters for messages with CHRS: CP437 in
 WvV>>> the german areas are still there.

Remind me. Do you have XLAT conversion table from cp437 to cp850?

 WvV>>> And this is still the same:

 WvV>>> https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/f3961b7ea085

 VA>> This looks like locale is not used. I saw such pictures when
 VA>> Strange.

 VA>> Do you use latest GoldEd build?

 WvV> Almost. I'm using this one:

 WvV> commit 4b6c754756d0fa96c0c3210d6ed0b63d49ec8e6a
 WvV> Author: Vitaliy Aksyonov
 WvV> <18148062+vitaliy-aksyonov@users.noreply.github.com>
 WvV> Date:   Wed Mar 6 13:38:52 2024 -0700

 WvV>     call setlocale() before initscr() (#86)

 WvV>     See section Initialization in man 3 ncurses.
 WvV>     https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/ncurses.3x.html
 WvV>     Locale shall be initialized before ncurses initialization.

 WvV> The latest one doesn't seem so change anything regarding screen
 WvV> output.

Looks like incorrect locale to me again.

 VA>> Do you still run it with LANG=en_US.cp850?
 WvV> Yes.

 VA>> In some message I saw en_EN.CP850.

 WvV> The localdef command, created the directory with lowercase 'cp850'
 WvV> although I specified it with uppercase 'CP850'. It also shows it with
 WvV> lowercase 'cp' when locale -a is executed. So I switched to specifying
 WvV> it as lowercase in my golded start script. But case probably doesn't
 WvV> matter.

No, I mean that i saw you using en_*EN*.cp850, not en_*US*.cp850. That is important.

 VA>> Could you also run:
 VA>> LANG=en_US.cp850 locale

 WvV> Here are some tries:

 WvV> wilnux5:/home/fido/log # locale
 WvV> LANG=POSIX
 WvV> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
                     ^^^^^
This is not correct

 WvV> LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
 WvV> LC_TIME="POSIX"
 WvV> LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
 WvV> LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
 WvV> LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
 WvV> LC_PAPER="POSIX"
 WvV> LC_NAME="POSIX"
 WvV> LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
 WvV> LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
 WvV> LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
 WvV> LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
                        ^^^^^^^
These guys too.
 WvV> LC_ALL=

[...skipped...]

Make sure that all LC_-s are en_US.cp850. Especially LC_CTYPE.

Vitaliy

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