On 14 Jul 2010, at 18:56, nico wrote:
Hmm, actually I never had problems setting the locale. I always have
LANG and LC_MESSAGES set to en_US.UTF-8 so language is still english
and the other variables are set to de_DE.UTF-8 so information many
apps do rely on like paper size, currency, punctuation (the fail in
my case), address format and stuff like that is correct. So I'm just
going to use a different uptime parsing method or is anyone having a
better idea?
I'm not sure how practical it would be for you to change all your wmii
scripts, but isn't there a script set for it written in rc instead of
bourne shell? Those would use the p9p or 9base commands which don't
respond to locale.
Am 14.07.2010 17:44, schrieb Ethan Grammatikidis:
On 14 Jul 2010, at 13:31, Uriel wrote:
If you set locales to retarded values (anything other than
C/UTF-8/en_US), shit will break.
Stop this crap, locales are an abomination.
*nods* The output of unix commands is just as much API as UI, so
applying locale conversions to them is hairy at best.
uriel
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:08 PM, nico <n...@lifeisabug.com> wrote:
Hello there,
i changed my systems locales to de_DE.UTF-8 and now the command
"uptime"
is using "," instead of "." because of LC_NUMERIC now being set
to German
too. As a result of this the loadavg part of the default
statusbar looks
like "131 087 071" (no dots since commas are removed by sed).
I have tried several things to make it work but I was not
sucessful.
LC_NUMERIC _must_ be exported to make it work correctly, since
uptime is
called from a subshell. Exporting LC_NUMERIC to an English locale
is not an
option.
Now, I don't know how to make that status command respecting a
different
locale.
Changing the sed command to something more complex would surely
work but I
am posting this here since this was no issue with wmii 3.6 yonks
ago and
maybe other people run into this too. Any suggestions how to
handle this?
Secondly, a small suggestion:
I would like to have something like a small indication if there
are any
floating windows hidden "behind" the managed layer if the latter
is toggled
active (currently there is none and it's quite possible to forget
about the
floating windows ;) Maybe a "~" in the tags name like the "*" if
a window
is requesting attention. Don't know if this is possible but I
hope you get
what I mean.
regards,
nico
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regards,
nico
