Re: Unhelpful error message

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen fremont ca us>]

On Oct 5, 2013, at 2:38 PM, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg tristatelogic com> wrote:

> In message <CAEmWKkTos-p4iwV_if-Y=XAg9y=UYpWimwyJtxyTLc519T_7WA mail gmail com>
> Steve White <stevan white gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Agreed, this message is sub-minimal in content, despite its wordiness.
> >
> > How about reporting
> > * what locale was not supported
> > * which library failed to support the locale
> > * what "fallback locale" it is falling back to.
> > * where it's getting this "fallback locale"
> > * what to do about it
> >
> > These questions could be answered by a message like:
> >
> > Gtk-WARNING **: Locale 'en_RU' not supported by C library libc.so.
> >          Falling back to default 'C' locale 'en_AU'.  See 'man
> > locale', 'man 5 locale'.
>
> OK, so at least one person agrees with me that this message... which
> is apparently confusing a *lot* of people... is somewhat less helpful
> than it could be.  Good.  So now, the question:  To whom should I
> appeal in order to get the message improved?

You can file a bug. Maybe one of the other Gtk devs will have a bright idea
about how to make this less confusing to users.

Note though, that Mr. White is just as clueless about setlocale(3) as
you are: The locale that it falls back to is 'C', meaning that no localizations
are performed. It won't fall back to a different locale with the same language
code.

Regards,
John Ralls