RE: tlug: Kinput2, canna, kterm and locales

["Howard, Bruce" <Bruce-Howard@example.com>]

on a possibly related note, has anyone made rxvt work correctly with
kinput2?

							cheers,
							bruce

>-----Original Message-----
From:	Andrew S. Howell [SMTP:andy@example.com]
>Sent:	Saturday, March 28, 1998 9:28 PM
>To:	tlug@example.com; sstone@example.com
>Subject:	Re: tlug: Kinput2, canna, kterm and locales
>
>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew S Howell <andy@example.com> writes:
>
>    Andrew> Now I'm wondering if the problem isn't that the version of X11
>I'm
>    Andrew> using. Its XFree86 3.3.1, straight off the RH CD. I tried to
>install
>    Andrew> the 3.3.2, but had all sorts of unresolved symbols, so I restored
>the
>    Andrew> tar of /usr/X11R6 that I'd taken before the install. Both
>versions
>    Andrew> though, seem to rely on glibc's setlocal, as it is undefined in
>all
>    Andrew> the libs under X11/lib
>
>Sorry for talking to myself here, but I found a few more pieces of the
>puzzle that might help other out. After searching the web some more, I
>came across a page by some guy named Craig :)
>
>http://www.twics.co.jp/~craig/linux-nihongo/web/
>
>He has a tar file there that that includes a small file called
>locale.c, which is then compiled to make liblocale.so. All this does
>is redirect calls to setlocale to XsetLocale, so that X's locale
>functions are used instead of glibc's. The trick to make this work is
>to define:
>
>export LANG=ja_JP.eucJP
>export LD_PRELOAD="/some-path/liblocale.so:/lib/libc.so.6"
>
>before running the app. I think this should work for kterm, but my X
>libs don't define XsetLocale, so I guess I'll have to compile up
>X. That should keep me busy :)
>
>Andy
>
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