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Added clarifying text to section 7.9 concerning charmap specifications.

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Bruce Dubbs 19 years ago
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chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -38,11 +38,17 @@
     <listitem>
     <listitem>
       <para>July 11, 2006</para>
       <para>July 11, 2006</para>
       <itemizedlist>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Added clarifying text to section 7.9 concerning 
+          charmap specifications.  Thanks to Dan Nicholson.
+          Closes ticket #1813.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Moved text in section 5.7 "Adjusting the Toolchain"
           <para>[bdubbs] - Moved text in section 5.7 "Adjusting the Toolchain"
           referencing TCL out of the caution and into its own note so it does not
           referencing TCL out of the caution and into its own note so it does not
           get included later in gcc-pass2.
           get included later in gcc-pass2.
           Closes ticket #1822.</para>
           Closes ticket #1822.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the kernel to version 2.6.16.24.
           <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the kernel to version 2.6.16.24.
           Closes ticket #1808.</para>
           Closes ticket #1808.</para>

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chapter07/profile.xml

@@ -124,12 +124,14 @@ LC_ALL=&lt;locale name&gt; locale int_prefix</userinput></screen>
 
 
 <screen><computeroutput>Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C</computeroutput></screen>
 <screen><computeroutput>Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C</computeroutput></screen>
 
 
-  <para>Sometimes it is possible to fix this by removing the charmap part of the
-  locale specification, as long as that does not change the character map that
-  Glibc associates with the locale (this can be checked by running the
-  <command>locale charmap</command> command in both locales).  For example, one
-  would have to change &quot;de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro&quot; to
-  &quot;de_DE@euro&quot; in order to get this locale recognized by Xlib.</para>
+  <para>Here Xlib expects that the character map will be listed in uppercase
+  notation with canonical dashes. For instance, "ISO-8859-1" rather than
+  "iso88591". It is sometimes possible to fix this by removing the charmap part
+  of the locale specification, as long as that does not change the character
+  map that Glibc associates with the locale.  This can be checked by running
+  the <command>locale charmap</command> command in both locales.  For example,
+  one would have to change "de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro" to "de_DE@euro" in order to
+  get this locale recognized by Xlib.</para>
 
 
   <para>Other packages can also function incorrectly (but may not necessarily
   <para>Other packages can also function incorrectly (but may not necessarily
   display any error messages) if the locale name does not meet their expectations.
   display any error messages) if the locale name does not meet their expectations.