RE: [Bug-gnubg] weirdness when toggling MWC in hint

[Albert Silver]

Well, thanks for fixing this of course, however a small parentheses if
you may:

> Thanks for the report - it was a bug and your report made it trivial
> to find and fix.
> I've committed a fix for it.
> 
> Along with it I've put in code which should deal with locales which
> label the character set as
> 
> ISO8859-x or ISO_8859-x. In both cases, it's converted to
> ISO-8859-x internally. I also fixed things so that nl_open failing
> should call perror - Joern's suggestion.
> 
> I've tried setting LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-1 and LANG=da_DK.ISO_8859-1 both
> of which appear to work correctly now, whereas they caused SIGSEGV
> before.
> 
> For the techies:

Ah yes, this is helpful in differentiating the above, clearly addressed
to the non-techie layman, and the below. This has forced me to
re-examine my goals, and I now hope to one day becoming a non-techie
layman. :-)

                                                Albert

> 
> The HintTake (and some others) routine set up the array of
> win/wing/winbg.../cubless/cubeful array as a local variable (and the
> current cube settings etc), then called the routine which eventually
> pops up the gtk hint window. Once the window is up, control returns to
> HintTake, which exits and its locals are gone, including the chances
> and equities. Redisplaying the window used whatever was on the stack
> where the chances and equities once lived. Fixed by making the locals
> statics within the functions.
> 
> --
> Jim Segrave           address@hidden
> 
> 
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