#737063 suckless-tools: dmenu crashes on LANG=eo.UTF-8

Package:
suckless-tools
Source:
suckless-tools
Description:
simple commands for minimalistic window managers
Submitter:
Walter Huf
Date:
2015-10-20 11:45:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#737063#5
Date:
2014-01-29 20:53:24 UTC
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To:
Dear Maintainer,

I have my desktop configured to use Esperanto, specifically LANG=eo.UTF-8 by
dpkg-reconfigure locales.
Running dmenu by itself shows "no locale support", then waits for stdin to
close. Closing stdin shows the segfault error.
Setting LANG=eo_XX.UTF-8, or clearing the variable, just shows "no locale
support" but does not crash. Setting it to another installed locale,
en_US.UTF-8, does not show "no locale supported" and also does not crash.

I think this may be an error with Xlib, I've seen other Xlib programs have
issues with this locale. Please redirect this report if it belongs somewhere
more specific.

Thank you very kindly!
#737063#10
Date:
2014-08-14 11:31:31 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Vasudev,

this bug was reported more than 6 months ago, so: ping :)

Cheers,
--
intrigeri
#737063#15
Date:
2014-08-14 11:49:53 UTC
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Heh I don't know how I miss all bug mails! Anyway this looks like
similar issue I reported long back [1], at the moment I probably can't
do anything IIRC its mainly because of Xlib not supporting the locale.

@Walter sorry for delay in getting back but as you mentioned it looks
like problem in Xlib, I would suggest talking with suckless people
first  on this.

[1] http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1211/13235.html

Best Regards
#737063#18
Date:
2014-08-14 11:49:53 UTC
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To:
Heh I don't know how I miss all bug mails! Anyway this looks like
similar issue I reported long back [1], at the moment I probably can't
do anything IIRC its mainly because of Xlib not supporting the locale.

@Walter sorry for delay in getting back but as you mentioned it looks
like problem in Xlib, I would suggest talking with suckless people
first  on this.

[1] http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1211/13235.html

Best Regards
#737063#23
Date:
2014-08-14 12:22:07 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

Vasudev Kamath wrote (14 Aug 2014 11:49:53 GMT) :

Perhaps, but crashing is quite different from displaying funny chars.

... then tag this bug report "upstream"?

Cheers,
#737063#28
Date:
2014-08-14 12:51:43 UTC
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To:
intrigeri <intrigeri@debian.org> writes:

I tested this now but can't reproduce it!.

Not sure if to tag upstream or not because I'm unable to reproduce
crash! no locale support is known to happen have seen it before but not
sure what causes it.
#737063#33
Date:
2014-08-14 12:59:55 UTC
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To:
Vasudev Kamath wrote (14 Aug 2014 12:51:43 GMT) :

... then tag "unreproducible" and "moreinfo", and ask more information
on how to reproduce this to the submitter? :)

Cheers,
#737063#38
Date:
2014-08-14 13:15:55 UTC
From:
To:
Control: tag -1 +unreproducible

Tagged

@Walter: I can't reproduce this can this is what I did

LANG=eo.UTF-8 dmenu and as said it works

LANG=eo dmenu
no supported locale

but doesn't segfault.
#737063#43
Date:
2014-08-14 13:15:55 UTC
From:
To:
Control: tag -1 +unreproducible

Tagged

@Walter: I can't reproduce this can this is what I did

LANG=eo.UTF-8 dmenu and as said it works

LANG=eo dmenu
no supported locale

but doesn't segfault.
#737063#48
Date:
2015-10-20 11:42:58 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Walter,

Could you please check whether this bug is still present in the newer
version of dmenu (dmenu-4.6 on suckless-tools version 41-1)?

Thanks,
Ilias