GnuCash 1.8.1-4 and RedHat 9: Error in main.scm

[Francis K Shim]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Francis K Shim <belfrancis2001 at yahoo.ca> writes:
>> > Also, what locale are you using?
>>
>>Well, that was the point that I was puzzled about.  My LANG
>>environment variable was not set; hence, I was thinking that gnucash
>>would use a default locale (ie: "C" or "POSIX").  After sending my
>>e-mail in, I decided to set the LANG to "en_US.UTF8" which is a widely
>>accepted glib related favourite.  It worked.  To test it, I then unset
>>LANG and tried it again with the same error result as before.
>>Although this problem is a configuration problem, I have to ask the
>>question as to whether gnucash should have I more graceful way of
>>handling this problem?
> 
> 
> Yes, GnuCash should definitely handle this problem.  However it works
> fine for me without a LANG, so this is not inherently a GnuCash issue.
> I suspect this is either a Red Hat 9 issue, or more likely a Guile-1.6
> issue.

Ah, I see... so the default should either have been handled before the 
actual gnucash binary was loaded? (ie: either LANG should have been set 
or a mandatory "setlocale" done before the scheme libraries were loaded?)

Frank