Re: locales and .Xdefaults

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > But if you want gnuplot_x11 always to run in a specific locale,
> > you can make a wrapper script:
> >
> > gnuplot_x11:
> > 	#!/bin/csh
> > 	setenv LC_TYPE C
> > 	real_gnuplot_x11 $@
>
> 	setenv LC_NUMERIC C

That's an ugly solution.

I don't see any reason why gnuplot should insist on having its resources in
.Xdefaults written in a non-C locales. It's just gnuplot's choice. Also,
docs says:

gnuplot> help x11 color_resources
...
For example, `blue, 0.5` means a half intensity blue.
..

Thus, gnuplot should not expect "blue,0,5" on some other systems -- that's
not portable.

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


PS: I came to this issue because on my system there is by default
	LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8
but I run Midnight Commander as
	LANG=en_US.UTF-8 mc_lastdir
so that its menus are always in English. That's not funny if hotkeys change.
Gnuplot behaves differently if I run it from plain Konsole or from mc,
i.e. its .Xdefault resources are not portable.

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