[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Use _NET_WM_NAME for UTF-8 title in X11 if supported

Reimar Doeffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
Wed Jun 21 11:40:25 CEST 2006


Hi,
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 01:28:55PM +0400, Sergey Pinaev wrote:
> value that ALWAYS have dot as separator) want "same format regardless of
> locale" - you call setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C").
> If you dumb enough to not call it - its your problem.

And have two setlocale call for each printf, sprintf, snprintf, fprintf,
scanf, scanf, strcasecmp and lots of other functions. Probably > 500k of
code size, and for what?
With the occasional person forgetting to do the right thing and some 10%
of the world wondering why one MPlayer feature does not work for them
but everyone else.
Sorry, but I really can't think of any way this locale handling could
have been done worse.

Greetings,
Reimar Doeffinger



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