[Xastir] FW: xfontsel

Tom Russo russo at bogodyn.org
Fri Nov 3 08:00:47 PDT 2017


On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 07:31:13AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Joseph LaFerla wrote:
> *) You may need to set "LANG=C" in the shell you start Xastir from. Unfortunately some of the functions in the standard C library are affected by this variable. This changes how Xastir saves/restores values to/from files. If you start Xastir from an xterm this way:
> 
>      LANG=C xastir &
> 
> It should fix that issue. Or you can set LC_NUMERIC as described here:

This guidance is obsolete, as of about 2010.  That's when you added code to 
xa_config.c that forces LC_NUMERIC=C and LANG=C automatically in commit
32e57f0.

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