[Xastir] Setting Station Symbol problems

[Lee Bengston]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Dale Seaburg wrote:
>
> > The "export LANF=C" took care of the Symbol
> > select problem.  Thanks!
>
> Yea, LANG=C.  Good.
>
> I really wish that printf/sprintf/fprintf/scanf/fscanf/scanf didn't
> change their operation based on that variable and others.  The real
> fix for Xastir would be to stop using those functions, but that's a
> lot of work.
>
> When we do our next go-around we'll have to fix this problem as
> well.  It used to be mostly a non-US problem, but due to UTF
> proliferation it's hit us now as well.  Default on most Linux
> installations is now UTF-something.  Mine is "en_US.UTF-8" on
> OpenSuSE-10.3.
>

I tried the new KDE version of LinuxMint yesterday, and I encountered the
symbol selection problem discussed above.  Thanks to Curt's message back in
January, I had the solution of LANG=C.  Thanks!

Lee - K5DAT
Murphy, TX