[Gnucash-changes] Fixing UTF-8 support in X sessions

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de>:

>> prompt> locale -a | grep jp
>> ja_JP.eucjp
>
> Yes, thanks for pointing this out, and this is certainly true for any of the
> gnucash series. So the original patch cannot go into any release.

Well, I backed out the g2 change already.  I agree, it's not safe
to "upgrade" to a .utf8 locale -- that may not always exist.
We should use internal APIs to do translations.

> But concerning a gnucash-1-8-branch workaround, I think I'll add this in a
> commented-out form, so that people can be pointed to that existing setting.
> ("go to file /usr/bin/gnucash and comment out that line after the comment
> that says 'comment out the next line'")

Is it necessarily dangerous to remove 'utf8' from the locale?  Are
there any locales foo.utf8 for which locale 'foo' does not exist?
I can't think of any -- I would think that downgrading from .utf8
to non-utf8 would always be safe, no?

> Christian

-derek

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