Bug 64277

Summary:	Problems with non ISO 8859-1 encoding
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	otaylor
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Description Hetz Ben Hamo 2002-05-01 12:48:48 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper: 
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.0.0-9; Linux) 
 
Description of problem: 
When I try to open a GTK or QT app (up2date, kate - those are just examples) I 
get the following errors: 
 
 hetz]$ kate 
Qt: Locales not supported on X server 
 
hetz]$ up2date 
 
(up2date:21735): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib 
 
(up2date:21735): Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers 
 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
 
 
How reproducible: 
Always 
 
Steps to Reproduce: 
1. Start X (no matter if GNOME, KDE or Window Maker) 
2. Try to run an application from the console 
3. see the results 
  
 
Actual Results:  posted above 
 
Expected Results:  Should work ;) 
 
Additional info: 
 
One of the other things that happends and can be seen with gfontsel - is that 
I see fonts names on the list (doesn't matter which encoding), but I cannot 
preview them - some of them, and even when previewed, I get errors like: 
 
Cannot open font: -monotype-arial-media-r-normal-*12-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-8 (just 
an example) 
 
I'm not sure that it belongs to locale config or to XFree.. 
 
Hetz

Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2002-05-01 14:03:07 UTC

Probably an XFree bug, but there is some important information
missing here ... what locale are you trying to use? What
is the output of "echo $LANG"?

Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2002-05-01 14:08:17 UTC

Also, how did you set the locale? In the installer? Through
locale-config? Through GDM?

Comment 3 Hetz Ben Hamo 2002-05-01 14:18:12 UTC

For your first question:  
hetz]$ echo $LANG  
en_US.iso885915  
  
For the second question - I didn't try to change the localte - however I did 
select Hebrew and English on the beta4 installer.

Comment 4 Owen Taylor 2002-05-01 14:36:19 UTC

Is this an upgrade from an earlier beta? We had some problems
with /etc/sysconfig/i18n being generated incorrectly earlier
by anaconda.

The immediate bug seems to be an X one

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias has an alias

en.US.iso885915  en_US.ISO8859-15

But locale.dir in the same directory doesn't have an entry
for en_US.ISO8859-15. (Like locale.alias, this seems to
have every entry duplicated twice, once without the comma,
once with the comma, and probably requires both to 
be added.)

Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2002-05-01 16:18:46 UTC

If this is a beta4 install, the various locale encodings weren't all there for
beta4, but they should all be fine for the final release.

Comment 6 Hetz Ben Hamo 2002-05-02 19:41:54 UTC

OK, updated to final RH 7.3 - bug seems to be gone. Please close this bug. 
 
Hetz