[tlug] Re: Funny locale problem with Gentoo

["big0" <big0@example.com>]

Stuart Luppescu writes: 

> After installing Gentoo, I discovered I couldn't start some apps from
> the command line (e.g. gnumeric, abiword, konqueror, emacs, gnomecc),
> but they would start ok from menus or by clicking on icons (in
> WindowMaker). When I ran them with strace I found that they all
> segfaulted with the same context:

Check if you have /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/<your_locale>/Compose
file. If no - create empty one or copy from other dir.
A lot of applications segfault if this file is missing in
the used locale (japanese or another). 

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