A short review for
5778 Inability to set locale leads to stack trace
can be found at
http://cr.opensolaris.org/~dduvall/pkg-badlocale/
We've run into this through two means -- one via the "run man as root and
have it remove the .so file that lets the locale work" bug and the other
where we split locale packages up but forgot to include dependencies so
people upgrading don't get the locales installed on their systems that they
should. It's a trivial bug to work around, but it's annoying, and
reasonably easy to fix, at least to this level (the bug report has a
suggestion for further improvements, but that's perhaps overkill).
The idea is to try to set the locale, spit out a useful error if it didn't
work, and fall back to the C locale. I've put the code in all five
programs that currently call setlocale(), though when trying it out with
packagemanager, I notice that gtk already spits out a warning about it and
that it's reverting to C. I don't know if this reversion is just for the
gtk portions, or whether it's program-wide, making this change unnecessary,
so some verification from the GUI folks would be good here.
Thanks,
Danek
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