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

On 14 Jul 2010, at 18:56, nico wrote:

> Hmm, actually I never had problems setting the locale. I always have
> LANG and LC_MESSAGES set to en_US.UTF-8 so language is still english
> and the other variables are set to de_DE.UTF-8 so information many
> apps do rely on like paper size, currency, punctuation (the fail in
> my case), address format and stuff like that is correct. So I'm just
> going to use a different uptime parsing method or is anyone having a
> better idea?

I'm not sure how practical it would be for you to change all your wmii
scripts, but isn't there a script set for it written in rc instead of
bourne shell? Those would use the p9p or 9base commands which don't
respond to locale.

>
> Am 14.07.2010 17:44, schrieb Ethan Grammatikidis:
>>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> regards,
> nico
>
>
Received on Wed Jul 14 2010 - 23:32:43 CEST