On Wed Jan 16 11:33:19 2002 +0100 Thomas Koeller wrote:

>Can anyone please give advice with the following problem:
>
>I installed XFree86 4.1.0 on my Linux/X86 system. Since I am using 
>glibc-2.2.4, for which locale support is good, I decided to build without X 
>locale support (X_LOCALE undefined during compilation). My system is 
>configured to support three locales in addition to the standard ones built 
>into libc, namely de_DE.ISO-8859-1, de_DE.ISO-8859-15 and de_DE.UTF-8. All of 
>those are accepted by setlocale(), but for de_DE.ISO-8859-15 
>XSupportsLocale() returns FALSE. I assumed that if I did not define X_LOCALE, 
>then X would completly rely on the underlying system's locale handling and 
>not do any locale interpretation of its own, but that does not appear to be 
>the case?
>
>Please forgive me if this topic has already been covered elsewhere, I could 
>not find any information by quickly browsing the list archive. Since I am not 
>subscribed to this list, please CC me when responding.
>

        X traditionally uses name forms like de_DE.ISO8859-15 and yes, it does
some locale interpretation on it's own anyway.
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