Re: locales and .Xdefaults

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Petr Mikulik wrote:

> I don't see any reason why gnuplot should insist on having its resources in
> .Xdefaults written in a non-C locales. 

gnuplot isn't really insisting on anything here --- it just does what 
you seemed to ask of it.  The locale environment settings are under 
*your* control, so you're responsible for making sure they make sense.
Setting LC_NUMERIC or LC_COLLATE to anything other than "C" or "POSIX"
generally doesn't make sense.

So you could fix your situation for good by putting an

	export LC_NUMERIC=C

into your ~/.profile or /etc/profile, or change your mc invokation macro to

	LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 mc_lastdir

> Consequently, I propose that gnuplot always reads .Xdefaults resources in
> C-locale.

That's a good idea in its own right.  I'll move the setlocale() call in 
gplt_x11.c to a less disturbing position.