Re: [dev] [wmii] Locale problem with "uptime" (loadavg in status bar) and a suggestion

On 14 Jul 2010, at 13:31, Uriel wrote:

> If you set locales to retarded values (anything other than
> C/UTF-8/en_US), shit will break.
>
> Stop this crap, locales are an abomination.

*nods* The output of unix commands is just as much API as UI, so
applying locale conversions to them is hairy at best.

>
> uriel
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:08 PM, nico <nico_AT_lifeisabug.com> wrote:
>> Hello there,
>>
>> i changed my systems locales to de_DE.UTF-8 and now the command
>> "uptime"
>> is using "," instead of "." because of LC_NUMERIC now being set to
>> German
>> too. As a result of this the loadavg part of the default statusbar
>> looks
>> like "131 087 071" (no dots since commas are removed by sed).
>> I have tried several things to make it work but I was not sucessful.
>> LC_NUMERIC _must_ be exported to make it work correctly, since
>> uptime is
>> called from a subshell. Exporting LC_NUMERIC to an English locale
>> is not an
>> option.
>>
>> Now, I don't know how to make that status command respecting a
>> different
>> locale.
>> Changing the sed command to something more complex would surely
>> work but I
>> am posting this here since this was no issue with wmii 3.6 yonks
>> ago and
>> maybe other people run into this too. Any suggestions how to handle
>> this?
>>
>> Secondly, a small suggestion:
>> I would like to have something like a small indication if there are
>> any
>> floating windows hidden "behind" the managed layer if the latter is
>> toggled
>> active (currently there is none and it's quite possible to forget
>> about the
>> floating windows ;) Maybe a "~" in the tags name like the "*" if a
>> window
>> is requesting attention. Don't know if this is possible but I hope
>> you get
>> what I mean.
>>
>> regards,
>> nico
>>
>>
>
Received on Wed Jul 14 2010 - 17:44:29 CEST