Bug 16222

Summary: LC_CTYPE from enviroment is ignored,
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: noa <noa-redhat-bugzilla>
Component: gnupgAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Version: 7.0CC: dr
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Description noa 2000-08-15 09:45:08 UTC 
the LC_CTYPE locale setting is not imported from the enviroment. This leads
to ugly translations of characters in different charsets than US-ASCII.
For example in swedish (test with LANG=sv) all occurances of e is
translated to aa and so forth. I will include a patch solve the problem
Comment 1 noa 2000-08-15 09:49:38 UTC 
Created attachment 2496 [details]
a patch that fixes the problem
Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-08-15 21:41:04 UTC 
This will be fixed in gnupg-1.0.2-2.  Thanks!
Comment 3 noa 2000-08-16 14:56:46 UTC 
sorry to come with bad news, but i had an email discussion with Werner Koch
(gnupg maintainer)
and he notified me that some function calls in the gnupg source depend on the
LC_CTYPE locale
being set to C (notably isalpha() and friends). I will work to get a better
patch and come back to
you then.
Comment 4 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-08-16 15:14:55 UTC 
Aaargh.  Reverting the patch.
Comment 5 Daniel Roesen 2000-10-21 01:44:29 UTC 
Hm. Now the 1.0.4 RPMs contain the following patch:

   #ifdef ENABLE_NLS
-    #ifdef HAVE_LC_MESSAGES
-       setlocale( LC_TIME, "" );
-       setlocale( LC_MESSAGES, "" );
-    #else
-       setlocale( LC_ALL, "" );
-    #endif
     bindtextdomain( PACKAGE, G10_LOCALEDIR );
     textdomain( PACKAGE );
+    setlocale( LC_ALL, "" );
   #endif

Is that really correct/needed? Nalin, could you please shed some light what the
effect of that change is? Is it a RH-only abnormally? If not, why did Werner not
fix this since 1.0.2?

BTW: does Werner know about the strlen fix?

-                && !strcmp(fname+strlen(defhome+1)-strlen(defhome+1),
+                && !strcmp(fname+strlen(fname)-strlen(defhome+1),
Comment 6 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-01-20 23:45:43 UTC 
*** Bug 24342 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-01-20 23:50:05 UTC 
Just double-checked my sent-mail folder.  We sent the patch to wk on
10/19, so yes, it should show up in a forthcoming release.