Re: [Bug-gnubg] Locale 'system' not supported by C library.

[boomslang]

Hi Philippe,

thanks for your answer.  The output for the sequence is:

show lang         --> Your language preference is set to system.
set lang C        --> Locale is now 'C'
set lang system   --> Locale 'system' not supported by C library.
show lang         --> Your language preference is set to system.
set lang C        --> Locale is now 'C'
set lang          --> Locale '' not supported by C library.

show lang         --> Your language preference is set to system.

I hope this gives some hints.  On the good side, everything seems to work ok nevertheles.

kind regards

On Saturday, 9 March 2019, 23:43:29 CET, Philippe Michel <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 12:05:36AM +0000, boomslang wrote:

> Since a few weeks I get the error message "Locale 'system' not
> supported by C library." at GNUbg startup. I see a similar message at
> startup of other GNU software... Anyone knows how to solve this issue?
>
> I use Windows 10 64bit (English languange), and GNU Backgammon version
> 1.06.002-mingw 32-Bit 20180802

This looks similar to the issue reported in
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50964 although it's not clear why, for
you, it started suddenly and in other software as well. With the report
above almost 2 years old it isn't likely be some Windows update that
broke mingw libraries.

Maybe trying what is suggested there (explicitely using English instead
of System default) would help for GNUbg. On the other hand, I don't see
anything special when using System default on a Windows 10 version 1709
in French language.

Could you start the CLI, run this sequance of commands :

show lang
set lang C
set lang system
show lang
set lang C
set lang
show lang

and report the output of the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th commands ?