[Xastir] constant warnings in term after update and ipv6 (updated) isn't broke

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 09:57:11AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 10:54:58AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <xastir at deej.net> flavor, containing:
> > I can confirm that doing:
> > export LANG="C"
> > then running Xastir in the same shell eliminates the "Character \260" 
> > warning messages at initial startup.
> > 
> > However, the messages start appearing after running awhile.?? Moving the 
> > mouse cursor over the Xastir main screen seems to cause it.
> 
> I have been running all night without any such errors after last night's
> changes, which should have eliminated the need for setting LANG=C.
> 
> The generation of the warning while moving around on the screen is 
> probably due to the drawing of degree symbols in the small text area at 
> the bottom of the screen.  I do not see these warnings at this point, with or 
> without LANG=C, so I did not wrap the code that draws there in these
> set/restore C locale calls.  

Just went through my commit from last night, and yes, I *DID* wrap the 
display of the current mouse position info at the bottom of the screen
in set/restore locale calls.  So now I have no idea why you're seeing this
as the mouse moves.  I do not.

> Since I can't reproduce these warnings on my system anymore, I'll have to 
> leave it to someone else to hunt down the remaining issues. 

This bit still applies.

> > On 11/17/2018 1:16 AM, Tom Russo wrote:
> > > I just undid *part* of my recent commit.  I left the part that actually
> > > fixed the warning, but undid a bit that changed the behavior of the "Station
> > > Info" dialog.
> > >
> > > I discovered that after my last commit, the degree sign rendered strangely
> > > in the Station Info scrollable text widget --- rather than just be a degree
> > > sign, it rendered as A with a circumflex followed by a degree sign.  I was
> > > unable to fix the code in db.c to stop doing that --- the only time it was
> > > right was if LANG=C had been set before running Xastir; setting via
> > > set_to_C_locale before rendering the text and restoring afterward did the
> > > wrong thing.
> > >
> > > When I took these calls out of db.c, I discovered that the station info
> > > dialog didn't show a degree sign at all, but also didn't spew the warning.
> > > This was actually how it was before I started hacking (i.e. it was already
> > > broken).
> > >
> > > Since I can't figure out how to fix it, I reverted to what was there earlier
> > > today.
> > >
> > > So as of now, the warnings are gone and the map renders the degree symbol
> > > correctly.  But the station info dialog is borken if LANG is not C (or empty),
> > > showing "Bearing to my station" as a number with no degree sign at all.
> > >
> > > If anyone else wants to hack on it, you'd have to look for the places where
> > > "station_data_fill_in" writes bearing data into si_text using XmTextInsert.
> > >
> > > Near as I can tell, if the si_text widget is created while locale is C, it's
> > > all good as far as the degree sign goes, but then other rendering of text
> > > in other languages may be busted.  it doesn't seem to be enough to change
> > > the locale while *writing* into that text widget if the locale wasn't C
> > > at the time the widget was created.
> > >
> > > At any rate, I'm giving up.  At least the warnings are gone and the map has
> > > the degree symbol rendered correctly irrespective of LANG setting.
> > >
> > >
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> -- 
> Tom Russo    KM5VY
> Tijeras, NM  
> 
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Tom Russo    KM5VY
Tijeras, NM  

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