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sergej

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From: Russia, Voronezh

Registered: 2006-03-21

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locale unsupported by Xlib

I try to use ru_RU.utf8 locale. But when I start X, some programs (xterm for example) give me subj. warning and can not display cyrilic symbols.

(In console russian text displayed properly)

Tell me please, what should I do.

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

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Re: locale unsupported by Xlib

Xterm kinda sucks... try urxvt instead of xterm.  Package is rxvt-unicode. 

sergej

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Re: locale unsupported by Xlib

May be it sucks, but it works well in other distros I used...

And problem not only in xterm. It is only example...

sergej

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Re: locale unsupported by Xlib

Another example:

$ psi
Qt: Locales not supported on X server

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

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Re: locale unsupported by Xlib

Maybe you already did that but did you followed the instructions on the front page news:
http://www.archlinux.org/news.php#209

sergej

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Re: locale unsupported by Xlib

No, I did not.

I use 2.3.5 glibc version.

And because of console apps works well and locale -a gives this locale, I think that my glibc supports it...

Problem appears only with X apps.

sergej

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Re: locale unsupported by Xlib

It seems I found the problem.

I do 'locale -a | grep ru_RU' and it gives me
ru_RU.utf8.

I export proper LANG & LC_ALL and get the problem with X.

Right way is ignore 'locale -a' output and set locale to ru_RU.UTF-8 instead ru_RU.utf8.

May be it a bug report?

sergej

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From: Russia, Voronezh

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Re: locale unsupported by Xlib

I fix all problems and add xlib ru_RU.UTF-8 locale package into the AUR.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … =1&ID=4181

If somebody have problems with X apps in ru_RU.UTF-8, he should search for "GTK1 ru_RU.UTF-8" keywords.

This problem is common for all X apps that uses X Core font.

X.org by default does not support this locale.

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

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Re: locale unsupported by Xlib

hmm, thanks for this. I had the excact same problem only with nb_NO.utf8 locale and locale -a gave me that one... So i sat LANG and LC_ALL(what are all these $L*'s anyway?) to nb_NO.UTF-8 and also rc.conf. The "locale not supported by Xlib" and similar disappeared. looking in /etc/rc.sysinit i see that it will be sat on startup now

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test1000

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Re: locale unsupported by Xlib

reported a bug: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4433

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sergej

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Re: locale unsupported by Xlib

Unfortunately, when messages dissapeared after setting ru_RU.UTF-8, problem with fonts in X core font apps still present.

This is the reason why I made this package.

sergej

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Re: locale unsupported by Xlib

And it seems that utf8/UTF-8 is the feature, not a bug....