On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:20:22PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: >On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, KuYa White wrote: >>I'm a newbie and korean. A few days ago, I installed cygwin and >>cygwin-xfree package. And then, I changed locale 'LANG=ko' for korean. >>Simply, I executed xterm. >>LANG=ko xterm -e vim >> >>I executed vim to write a document in xterm. When I tried to type any >>key in vim, xterm was closed with 'Segmentation fault (core dumped)' >>message. Even if I would listen music with xmms. Xmms was closed with >>'Segmentation fault' message. >> >>I tested other language environment. below japanese. >>LANG=ja xterm -e vim >> >>It works fine. >> >>I don't know what is problem. Is there anybody that saw like this? > >I suspect newlib doesn't support that locale. Here's what I read on > >http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/sources.redhat.com/ftp/newlib/libc.html > >This is a minimal implementation, supporting only the required "C" >value for locale; strings representing other locales are not honored >unless MB_CAPABLE is defined in which case three new extensions are >allowed for LC_CTYPE or LC_MESSAGES only: "C-JIS", "C-EUCJP", "C-SJIS", >or "C-ISO-8859-1". ("" is also accepted; it represents the default >locale for an implementation, here equivalent to "C".)
I suspect you're right, although I've studiously avoided trying to figure out how all of this locale stuff works. Newlib's implementation is very minimal and Cygwin uses newlib, so this is a Cygwin improvement that is waiting for the donation of someone's time and expertise. cgf
