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[Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen]

"Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I hope that when XI and XKB are reworked a "language" property will be
> added to the protocol.
>
> Right now many apps try to infer the language being written from the
> xkb layout in use (for on the fly spellchecking, activation of the
> correct locl font features, etc) and since the same layout can be used
> to write different languages the heuristic breaks badly.

In which cases should this differ from the system locale?
(I.e. whatever setlocale() returns).

eirik