Re: [Bug-gnubg] New: Setting language within gnubg

[Nardy Pillards]

Date sent:              Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:10:38 +0200
From:                   Jim Segrave <address@hidden>
> On Wed 27 Aug 2003 (14:35 +0200), Nardy Pillards wrote:
> > > The GUI option is located under Settings|Options|Other. In the CLI
> > > the command "set lang de_DE" sets gnubg to German. "set lang
> > > system" is for people that want to use the system's setting,
> > > specified by the LANG environment variable or on Windows what's
> > > set in the OS preferences. It's also the default. "show lang"
> > > shows the current setting.
> > > 
> > > I've left the command line option of Jim in. This takes precedence
> > > over all other settings.
> 
> I've put in a couple of fixes.
> 
> char *szLang="system"; can put the string "system" in read-only
>   memory. It could also be overwritten with longer strings. I don't
>   think this was the problem
> 
> putenv(char *envstring) under glibc puts the actual pointer envstring
> into the environment, so it can not be a local variable. Under FreeBSD
> and Solaris, a copy of envstring is put in the environment, under
> Linux the environment variable disappears and is replaced with junk.
> 
> I don't know if this is the cause, but I've committed a fix.
> 
> -- 
> Jim Segrave           address@hidden
> 

Win32, ChangeLog 1.1308 of today:
t
he line 'set lang de_DE' in .gnubgautorc causes gnubg to crash 
immediately.
( same with 'set lang it_IT').

Nardy