glibc error messages

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Sat Dec 28 00:48:40 UTC 2002


Hello!

> When compiled with glib2, error messages received from glibc are not
> displayed with the correct character set. E.g. launch 'LC_ALL=fr_FR mc'
> and try to remove /bin/bash as normal user. The accented letter is
> incorrect in the error box.
>
> If compiled with glib1, it is okay.

. From glib NEWS:

Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
=================================
...
* Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,

It looks like we'll have to recode it back to the current encoding.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin



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