Broken xfce4-about / Maybe bug in libxfce4util

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Enrico Tröger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was just about writing a German localized version of the Info text in
> xfce4-about. While testing I noticed it isn't used at all.
> 
> After reading the code to get an idea what's going wrong, I noticed
> something strange in xfce_localize_path_internal()
> (libxfce4util/trunk/libxfce4util/xfce-i18n.c:95).
> There is a check:
> 
> if (G_LIKELY (lang != NULL && strchr (lang, '/') != NULL))
> 
> I don't understand why lang should contain a '/'. This is why it
> doesn't work for me. My locale is "de_DE.UTF-8".
> 
> If I run xfce4-about with
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8/ xfce4-about
> it works because the check for the '/' is TRUE and the localized
> version is used. But when are '/' are used in locales? I've never seen
> this before.
> 
> Is this a bug or am I missing something?

That's pretty strange... I think Benny wrote that code; maybe he can 
shed some light on it.

	-brian