[bug-gtypist] Fwd: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

[gevisz]

I have just found out that I have sent a lot of messages
in the thread only to Felix, and not to the bug-gtypist
mailing list. To fix this, I now resend most important of the
to the bug-typist mailing list.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: gevisz <address@hidden>
Date: 2016-01-08 23:24 GMT+02:00
Subject: Re: [bug-gtypist] Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
To: Felix Natter <address@hidden>


2016-01-08 21:48 GMT+02:00 Felix Natter <address@hidden>:
>
> the problem is this:
>
>> --disable-silent-rules --libdir=/usr/lib64 --disable-nls EMACS=no
> [...]
>> checking whether NLS is requested... no
>
> It seems you need to set a "use flag":
>   http://gentoobrowse.randomdan.homeip.net/package/app-misc/gtypist#uses

Hi, Felix, and thank you for your reply.

I have not exactly got what you wrote above but I think
that it is somehow related with what I have found yesterday,
namely, I tried to compile gtypist with the nls use flag
(nls stands for `native language support') and after that
gtypist started to accept ru.typ.

But this, in my view is a bug, as nls use flag should
switch on (and off, when it disabled) only translation
of help and menues into the "native lanuage".

I have nls use flag switched off globally (that is, for
all applications) and nevertheless can edit a text in
cyrillic in a text editor, read and write e-mails in cyrillic
with my e-mail client, view web pages in cyrillic via
web browser, etc. Only the menues appear appear in English.

Yesterday, I reported this to gentoo-user mailing list
(as I thought that the use flags is a unique feature
of Gentoo, and therefore it is Gentoo devs who should
take care of that).

However, today I have got an answer from the
gentoo-user list asking me to report this bug
to the gtypist mailing list, which implies that
I, probably, was wrong supposing that use flags
are unique feature of Gentoo and that it is Gentoo
devs who should take care about it.

Sincerely,
                                               Gevis.