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title="NEW - fontconfig-2.13.0 globally sets the locale from the environment"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105492">105492</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>fontconfig-2.13.0 globally sets the locale from the environment
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<th>Product</th>
<td>fontconfig
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>Other
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>library
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>fontconfig-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>ulm@gentoo.org
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<th>QA Contact</th>
<td>freedesktop@behdad.org
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<pre>Function FcConfigEnsure globally sets the locale by doing:
setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
This countermands any locale settings in the calling program. For example, GNU
Emacs sets LC_NUMERIC to "C" which is undone by the fontconfig library. In
turn, this breaks Emacs' lisp reader.
See also:
Gentoo bug: <a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/650332">https://bugs.gentoo.org/650332</a>
GNU Emacs bug: <a href="https://debbugs.gnu.org/30788">https://debbugs.gnu.org/30788</a></pre>
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