Re: [E-devel] Wizard module correction

[Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...>]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 14:13:51 -0800 Michael Jennings <e-...@ka...> babbled:

> On Friday, 07 November 2008, at 09:04:06 (+1100),
> Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> 
> > it works - it just isn't going to let you continue until you select
> > a language.  i can just disable the language selection if none are
> > found, but i'd rather people fix their systems.
> 
> You can't fix something that isn't broken.  The code should assume "C"
> if no locale support is present and move on.

possibly - but it's a goo indicator of a system that isnt going to support
translation at all so when they find their language selector blank and empty
and wonder why input methods throw up and barf and a bunch of other things that
require your locale support to work... the problem will arise anyway. e lives
in an international world - some may like to live in an "ascii america only"
world.

> > nb - i dont care what posix defines. if we stuck to "only do what
> > posix defines" we souldn't use x11 nor a gazillion other
> > things. posix doesn't define libpng or libjpeg, or fontconfig or
> > dbus...
> 
> That logic is backward, IMHO.  POSIX doesn't *preclude* the use of X11
> or libjpeg or libpng.  The current code *precludes* running on a
> system that is validly and correctly configured according to existing
> standards.

and posix does not preclude requiring locale support in libc to support at
least one of the translation locales in e. that does not make a broken app -
that makes it have a requirement that is not met.

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