Re: Yet another locale question....

["M. Meiarashi" <mes@example.com>]

From: jwb@example.com (Jim Breen)
Subject: Re: Yet another locale question....
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 12:35:30 +0900 (JST)
Message-ID: <200105090335.MAA03271@example.com>

; Makes you wonder what it's trying to do. Was it about to switch all
; messages to Japanese....?  

strictly speaking, no.  it's not about to switch the messages but it's
about to set one of a state of the application.  lator the message are
switched based on that state if the application is coded to honor the
locale.

the warning message 
"locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged" 
seems to be the one that is hard coded inside of the
_XtDefaultLanguageProc() which is in xc/lib/Xt/Initialize.c in the if
clause as
 if (! setlocale(LC_ALL, xnl))
	XtWarning("locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged");
which means the call of setlocale (with given parameter) is failed.

The call to _XtDefaultLanguageProc is from XtSetLanguageProc() so
even if the application has nothing to do with resources
(i.e. messages), any application produces the message if the application
calles XtSetLanguageProc() and the locale is not supported.

it's a bare hunch but i believe what the behavior of the application
(Acroread4) alterd by the locale are such like menu items or messages
only and simply you just can ignore it.

by the way, are you sure if it is a right thing to define the
environment variable LANG to be "en_US ja_JP"?  according to the GNU
C library reference manual, LANG specifies "a single locale to use for
all purposes." so, even in the case your system has BOTH en_US AND
ja_JP locales, setting LANG to be "en_US ja_JP" would be a problem.

------ M. Meiarashi
    -- mes@example.com