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

[Matthias Hopf]

On Jun 22, 06 12:02:37 -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > At least glibc and *BSD libcs have xlocale.h, which gives you
> > thread-safe locale switching.
> 
> "At least"?? Making nasty nonstandard extensions that horribly bloat
> the standard library even more is anything but a good thing.
> Thankfully no one uses that crap...

Rich, the rational behind having thread-safe locales is reasonable. No
need to get offensive, especially as I did not promote this in any form.
As I said, this is not standardized. I do not like using non-standard
routines either.

> The fundamental problem is simply that so many core library routines
> depend on locale when they shouldn't. If this were fixed then the
> issue would mostly go away.

So *printf shouldn't depend on locale? Which functions should depend on
the locale setting then, if not printf?

Matthias

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