Re: daily `makemandb -Q' drops core

[Van Ly <van.ly%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost> writes:

> On Mon, 8 Sep 2025, Van Ly wrote:
>
>>
>> I checked with Grok on the options for the LANG environment variable and
>> expect the next login to be improved.
>>
>
> Don't know what Grok is, but, `locale -a' will list all the valid values for
> LANG= and LC_ALL= on Unixes. (NetBSD's locale has a minor bug: it shows some
> values which aren't valid locale names in the NetBSD implementation, like `be',
> `ca' or `nl' etc.)
>
> (And, my LANG= example above has a typo: it's `en_GB.UTF-8', not `en.GB.UTF-8')
>

The Grok landing page has a text input field like a search engine.  It
takes your query and fans out to resources for the answer, the AI model
plumbing compresses the result in a way that feels 75% about right at times
and you are saved from the ordeal of reading 60 webpages or more.

Grok suggested `locale -a' for listing the alternatives and I wasn't
sure about that typo.

When I unintentionally logged out, intending to restart ctwm, and on
login the font shrunk, using suggestions from Grok, I think the
following were set in Xresources from somewhere.  The lines with
`utf8Fonts' look interesting.

$ appres XTerm | grep -i font
*SimpleMenu*menuLabel.font:	-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
*tek4014*fontLarge:	9x15
*tek4014*font2:	8x13
*tek4014*font3:	6x13
*tek4014*fontSmall:	6x10
*fontMenu*font-linedrawing*Label:	Line-Drawing Characters
*fontMenu*allow-color-ops*Label:	Allow Color Ops
*fontMenu*font-doublesize*Label:	Doublesized Characters
*fontMenu*allow-font-ops*Label:	Allow Font Ops
*fontMenu*font-loadable*Label:	VT220 Soft Fonts
*fontMenu*allow-mouse-ops*Label:	Allow Mouse Ops
*fontMenu*font-packed*Label:	Packed Font
*fontMenu*fontdefault*Label:	Default
*fontMenu*allow-tcap-ops*Label:	Allow Termcap Ops
*fontMenu*render-font*Label:	TrueType Fonts
*fontMenu*font1*Label:	Unreadable
*fontMenu*font2*Label:	Tiny
*fontMenu*font3*Label:	Small
*fontMenu*font4*Label:	Medium
*fontMenu*font5*Label:	Large
*fontMenu*font6*Label:	Huge
*fontMenu*font7*Label:	Enormous
*fontMenu*allow-title-ops*Label:	Allow Title Ops
*fontMenu*utf8-mode*Label:	UTF-8 Encoding
*fontMenu*fontescape*Label:	Escape Sequence
*fontMenu*allow-window-ops*Label:	Allow Window Ops
*fontMenu*fontsel*Label:	Selection
*fontMenu*utf8-fonts*Label:	UTF-8 Fonts
*fontMenu*allow-bold-fonts*Label:	Bold Fonts
*fontMenu*utf8-title*Label:	UTF-8 Titles
*fontMenu.Label:	VT Fonts
*VT100.utf8Fonts.font:	-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
*VT100.utf8Fonts.font2:	-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-50-iso10646-1
*VT100.utf8Fonts.font3:	-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1
*VT100.utf8Fonts.font4:	-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1
*VT100.utf8Fonts.font5:	-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
*VT100.utf8Fonts.font6:	-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1
*VT100.utf8Fonts.font7:	-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-m-150-iso10646-1
*VT100.font1:	nil2
*VT100.font2:	5x7
*VT100.font3:	6x10
*VT100.font4:	7x13
*VT100.font5:	9x15
*VT100.font6:	10x20
*VT100.font7:	-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-m-150-iso10646-1
XTerm*renderFont:	true
*IconFont:	nil2


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vl