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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] gtk: use setlocale() for LC_MESSAGES only
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] gtk: use setlocale() for LC_MESSAGES only |
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Fri, 18 Dec 2015 12:38:44 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
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.
Kevin
> ui/gtk.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/ui/gtk.c b/ui/gtk.c
> index df2a79e..11ea2cf 100644
> --- a/ui/gtk.c
> +++ b/ui/gtk.c
> @@ -1941,7 +1941,8 @@ void gtk_display_init(DisplayState *ds, bool
> full_screen, bool grab_on_hover)
>
> s->free_scale = FALSE;
>
> - setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
> + /* LC_MESSAGES only. See early_gtk_display_init() for details */
> + setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "");
> bindtextdomain("qemu", CONFIG_QEMU_LOCALEDIR);
> textdomain("qemu");
>
> @@ -2010,6 +2011,24 @@ void gtk_display_init(DisplayState *ds, bool
> full_screen, bool grab_on_hover)
>
> void early_gtk_display_init(int opengl)
> {
> + /* The QEMU code relies on the assumption that it's always run in
> + * the C locale. Therefore it is not prepared to deal with
> + * operations that produce different results depending on the
> + * locale, such as printf's formatting of decimal numbers, and
> + * possibly others.
> + *
> + * Since GTK+ calls setlocale() by default -importing the locale
> + * settings from the environment- we must prevent it from doing so
> + * using gtk_disable_setlocale().
> + *
> + * QEMU's GTK+ UI, however, _does_ have translations for some of
> + * the menu items. As a trade-off between a functionally correct
> + * QEMU and a fully internationalized UI we support importing
> + * LC_MESSAGES from the environment (see the setlocale() call
> + * earlier in this file). This allows us to display translated
> + * messages leaving everything else untouched.
> + */
> + gtk_disable_setlocale();
> gtkinit = gtk_init_check(NULL, NULL);
> if (!gtkinit) {
> /* don't exit yet, that'll break -help */
> --
> 2.5.1
>
>
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