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

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:56 PM, nico <nico_AT_lifeisabug.com> 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?

Again, stop trying to 'use' the PoSix locale system for anything, it
is completely broken and totally antithetical to how Unix is designed
to work.

An option would be to use p9p's user space instead of the usual GNU crap.

uriel

>
> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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> --
> regards,
> nico
>
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