Subj : Re: Need volonteers to test another patch
To   : Vitaliy Aksyonov
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Mon Mar 25 2024 03:13 pm

Hi Vitaliy,

On 2024-03-25 07:14:50, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64)"

 WvV>> (Yes, it's old ;-))

 VA> Got it. Not too old for FidoNet. :)

Nope. ;-)

 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 putty
 WvV>> terminal:

 WvV>> https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/2a5c7f2fbdc4

 VA> This is exactly how I saw it on my computer, when was using 
pseudo-graphics
 VA> with wrong or missing locale.

The locale is there, so is it wrong?

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

 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  Strange.

 VA> Do you use latest GoldEd build?

Almost. I'm using this one:

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

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

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

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

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

Yes.

 VA> In some message I saw en_EN.CP850.

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

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

Here are some tries:

wilnux5:/home/fido/log # locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

wilnux5:/home/fido/log # LANG=en_US.cp850 locale
LANG=en_US.cp850
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.cp850"
LC_TIME="en_US.cp850"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.cp850"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.cp850"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.cp850"
LC_PAPER="en_US.cp850"
LC_NAME="en_US.cp850"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.cp850"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.cp850"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.cp850"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.cp850"
LC_ALL=

wilnux5:/home/fido/log # LANG=en_US.CP850 locale
LANG=en_US.CP850
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.CP850"
LC_TIME="en_US.CP850"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.CP850"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.CP850"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.CP850"
LC_PAPER="en_US.CP850"
LC_NAME="en_US.CP850"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.CP850"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.CP850"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.CP850"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.CP850"
LC_ALL=

wilnux5:/home/fido/log # sudo -u fido LANG=en_US.cp850 locale
LANG=en_US.cp850
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.cp850"
LC_TIME="en_US.cp850"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.cp850"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.cp850"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.cp850"
LC_PAPER="en_US.cp850"
LC_NAME="en_US.cp850"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.cp850"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.cp850"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.cp850"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.cp850"
LC_ALL=


Bye, Wilfred.

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