[xiphos-users] pop up message at start?

[oldschoolcowboy]

actually my system defaults to en_US.UTF-8;

also Xiphos works way better when source built; instead binary installed;

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On Wednesday, November 12th, 2025 at 13:21, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:

> oldschoolcowboy writes:
>> never mind; found it had to set it in Xiphos.
>
> Xiphos knows nothing of the "C" locale. Typical default in a US system would be:
>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
>
> I am ... surprised ... that your system defaults at any time to a locale which is not a real locale.
> That is to say, "C" is sort of the null locale, where strings are handled the most simplistically, i.e., no processing or translation.
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