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Message-ID: <20151118233410.669d2511@r2lynx>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 23:34:10 +0700
From: Рысь <lynx@...xlynx.tk>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl and legacy win32 apps through wine

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:24:18 -0500
Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 01:32:44PM +0700, Рысь wrote:
> > I managed to get it work easily - the fact that Wine does all
> > encoding by it's own powers happily eases the task, and drafts to
> > using the simple LD_PRELOAD hack:
> > 
> > % cat
> > libbrklocale.c #include <locale.h>
> > #include <string.h>
> > 
> > char d[64];
> > 
> > char *setlocale(int cat, const char *locale)
> > {
> > 	char *p = d;
> > 
> > 	strcpy(d, "ru_RU.UTF-8");
> > 	return p;
> > }
> > 
> > % cc -shared -fPIC libbrklocale.c -o libbrklocale.so
> > % LD_PRELOAD=./libbrklocale.so wine prog1251.exe
> > 
> > I can hardcore it into Wine itself by calling appropriate setlocale
> > from somewhere, but it's easier to use it as is since my Wine setup
> > is going into separate chroot directory.
> > 
> > The problem was discovered with Wine debugging facility, it got
> > mixed locale with mixed "C" and "ru_RU.UTF-8" for
> > LC_ALL/LC_MESSAGES/LC_CTYPE. It used latter for encoding, and text
> > was garbled. Now everything is consistent and works flawlessly.
> 
> Are you perhaps using an older version of musl? Recent versions should
> report the locale you requested for all categories, not a mix of C and
> your requested locale.
> 
> Rich

Probably so (1.1.4 with my patches), but I have succeeded in working
around it again, so I continue to use it because it just works :-)

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