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Re: Reading UTF-8 Mail



On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:14:26PM +0200, Alain Bench wrote:
   Glibc's setlocale() does some progressive munging try and error
steps beginning at what's declared in environment, and ending at
".utf8". The Debian installed locale datas are spelled ".utf8". Hence
both spellings are functionally equivalent, but Derek's version is a
very little bit more efficient (some ENOENT failing open()s avoided).

Thanks for the information. But /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/compose.dir shows only the .UTF-8 format, so .utf8 may work with the glibc but not with X (X.org 6.9, maybe fixed in 7.0).
Hm, just tested it, it works too. So why the “wrong” form?

Shade and sweet water!

        Stephan

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