Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] gtk: use setlocale() for LC_MESSAGES only

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 10.09.2015 um 17:19 hat Alberto Garcia geschrieben:
> The QEMU code is not internationalized and assumes that it runs under
> the C locale, but if we use the GTK+ UI we'll end up importing the
> locale settings from the environment. This can break things, such as
> the JSON generator and iotest 120 in locales that use a decimal comma.
> 
> We do however have translations for a few simple strings for the GTK+
> menu items, so in order to run QEMU using the C locale, and yet have a
> translated UI let's use setlocale() for LC_MESSAGES only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>

Not sure why I noticed it only now and if it's related to any recent
package upgrade on my side (using RHEL 7), but I noticed that non-ASCII
characters in the GTK UI strings are broken for me and git bisect
pointed to this commit.

Kevin

>  ui/gtk.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ui/gtk.c b/ui/gtk.c
> index df2a79e..11ea2cf 100644
> --- a/ui/gtk.c
> +++ b/ui/gtk.c
> @@ -1941,7 +1941,8 @@ void gtk_display_init(DisplayState *ds, bool 
> full_screen, bool grab_on_hover)
>  
>      s->free_scale = FALSE;
>  
> -    setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
> +    /* LC_MESSAGES only. See early_gtk_display_init() for details */
> +    setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "");
>      bindtextdomain("qemu", CONFIG_QEMU_LOCALEDIR);
>      textdomain("qemu");
>  
> @@ -2010,6 +2011,24 @@ void gtk_display_init(DisplayState *ds, bool 
> full_screen, bool grab_on_hover)
>  
>  void early_gtk_display_init(int opengl)
>  {
> +    /* The QEMU code relies on the assumption that it's always run in
> +     * the C locale. Therefore it is not prepared to deal with
> +     * operations that produce different results depending on the
> +     * locale, such as printf's formatting of decimal numbers, and
> +     * possibly others.
> +     *
> +     * Since GTK+ calls setlocale() by default -importing the locale
> +     * settings from the environment- we must prevent it from doing so
> +     * using gtk_disable_setlocale().
> +     *
> +     * QEMU's GTK+ UI, however, _does_ have translations for some of
> +     * the menu items. As a trade-off between a functionally correct
> +     * QEMU and a fully internationalized UI we support importing
> +     * LC_MESSAGES from the environment (see the setlocale() call
> +     * earlier in this file). This allows us to display translated
> +     * messages leaving everything else untouched.
> +     */
> +    gtk_disable_setlocale();
>      gtkinit = gtk_init_check(NULL, NULL);
>      if (!gtkinit) {
>          /* don't exit yet, that'll break -help */
> -- 
> 2.5.1
> 
>