Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

["Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 21 October 2002 12:22 pm, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
> * Steven T. Hatton; <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on 21 Oct, 2002 wrote:
> >I discovered that using LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in SuSE Linux 8.1 causes a
> > problem with XEmacs dired, as well as with Mathematica's HelpBrowser. 
> > Have others seen any strangeness in the regard?
>
> Were you using XEmacs with LANG=en_US.UTF8 before ie. with 8.0 and if so
> was it working ?

Well, that's a more difficult question than it might seem to be.  I typically 
compile my own XEmacs from the latest CVS.  The SuSE provided XEmacs works 
fine with the UTF-8, and I really don't know if I was having the problem 
before the upgrade.  The problem is that dired won't open a file or allow me 
to modify file permissions.  I tells me there is no file on the selected 
line.  I don't use dired a whole lot, so I'm not sure when it stopped 
working.

I'm pretty sure Matamatica was affected by either the installation of 8.1, or 
one of the patches which I applied shortly thereafter.  I may well have been 
having some of the Mathematica problems before the SuSE upgrade, but I'm 
pretty sure the upgrade(or recent patch) caused them to be worse. 

I've gotta tell ya.  Trying to learn to use something as complex as 
Mathematica to generate MathML with a brand new version of Mathematica, the 
most recent Mozilla cvs checkouts, while upgrading your Linux box to the 
latest release, and using the latest cvs builds of XEmacs to document it all 
in DocBook beta DTD document type, is well.... interesting.

It ain't called /bleeding edge/ for noth'n'  :-/

STH

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