[Xastir] Problem under debian "Etch"

[William McKeehan]

echo $LANG returns en_US

I'm configured with GraphicsMagick; does that make any difference?
-- 
William McKeehan

On Fri, April 20, 2007 11:34 am, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, William McKeehan wrote:
>
>> Here's the out put from a
>>   egrep "DIR|usr|local" ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf
>> (note I added the . before xastir; I assume that was a typo in your
>> message):
>
> Yes.  I was actually "cd'ed" to ~/.xastir/config when I ran the
> command, added the path manually to my e-mail and got it wrong.
>
>
>> Nothing jumps out at me as being incorrect...am I overlooking something?
>
> What's your LANG variable set to?
>
>     echo $LANG
>
> It should be either "en_US" or "C" for Xastir.
>
>     export LANG=en_US; xastir -geometry -0-0 &
>
> If LANG is set to something else, it messes up the
> sprintf/fprintf/printf/scanf/sscanf/fscanf functions in libc.  We
> use those functions to read/write files in Xastir, including the
> config files.
>
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