On Wednesday 30 August 2006 17:48, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Sebastian Kemper wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > there's an open bug report for the Gentoo VDR ebuilds regarding locale > > vars: http://bugs.gentoo.de/view.php?id=445 > > > > Up till now everything gets set to POSIX and afterwards LC_COLLATE gets > > set to whatever the user requests in the init script's config file. My > > suggestion was to make LANG accessible in the config file as well, > > because both are mentioned in the VDR docs. > > > > Is there any final wisdom on which locale vars influence VDR? > > VDR itself doesn't react on any environment settings, except when > checking for the presence of UTF8 (which it refuses to run with). > > It's mainly the runtime library that reacts on these locale settings, > using them to decide how to sort strings, for instance. > I think one part of the request was to find out which functions of libc/other runtime libs exactly are influenced by locale-settings (and which settings?). And if it only is searching/sorting why not just strip the utf8 out of the locale-setting via code at the beginning of main and set charset to latin1 or the one selected by lang. Annotation: Why does vdr.c only check for LC_CTYPE and LANG as LC_ALL overwrites them all when set. Correct order for the check would be if (LC_ALL set and contains utf8) || (LC_CTYPE set and contains utf8) || (LANG set and contains utf8) { error; } I vote for at least correct usage of charsets by vdr, that has not to be utf8, but will not be that more complicated once started. I could start a new thread if this leads to any useful discussion. Matthias -- Matthias Schwarzott Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20060831/1f7d0563/attachment.pgp
