Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] gtk: use setlocale() for LC_MESSAGES only

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Fr, 2015-12-18 at 12:38 +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 10.09.2015 um 17:19 hat Alberto Garcia geschrieben:
> > The QEMU code is not internationalized and assumes that it runs under
> > the C locale, but if we use the GTK+ UI we'll end up importing the
> > locale settings from the environment. This can break things, such as
> > the JSON generator and iotest 120 in locales that use a decimal comma.
> > 
> > We do however have translations for a few simple strings for the GTK+
> > menu items, so in order to run QEMU using the C locale, and yet have a
> > translated UI let's use setlocale() for LC_MESSAGES only.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>
> 
> Not sure why I noticed it only now and if it's related to any recent
> package upgrade on my side (using RHEL 7), but I noticed that non-ASCII
> characters in the GTK UI strings are broken for me and git bisect
> pointed to this commit.

I guess we need to set LC_CTYPE too.
Can you try whenever the attached patch fixes the issue?

thanks,
  Gerd

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