[Xastir] FW: xfontsel

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 3 Nov 2017, Tom Russo wrote:

> 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 This guidance is obsolete, as of about 2010.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.

Thanks. I can't remember 7 years ago.  ;-)

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