[Swarm-Modelling] a locale problem

[Cheng-shan Frank Liu]

Hi, I need a help to solve this problem:

I use Chinese input system often. Every time when I try to change 
parameter values in my Swarm program, I cannot change some of them. If I 
keep trying, the program crashed. I got the error message shown below:

(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/ashan/swarmProjects/Expertise/influence

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xf66eb42b in _XimProcSyncReply ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/ximcp.so.2
(gdb) bt
#0  0xf66eb42b in _XimProcSyncReply ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/ximcp.so.2
#1  0xf66e608c in _XimCbDispatch ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/ximcp.so.2
#2  0xf66e6148 in _XimCbDispatch ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/ximcp.so.2
#3  0xf6b89a45 in XFilterEvent () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
#4  0xf6cfcead in Tk_HandleEvent () from /usr/lib/libtk8.4.so
#5  0xf6cfd47e in TkQueueEventForAllChildren () from /usr/lib/libtk8.4.so
#6  0xf6c9f58a in Tcl_ServiceEvent () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so
#7  0xf6c9f7fa in Tcl_DoOneEvent () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so
#8  0xf6eaeb50 in tkobjc_doOneEventSync () from /usr/lib/swarm/libswarm.so.0
#9  0xf6e62cc5 in swarm_force_references () from
/usr/lib/swarm/libswarm.so.0
#10 0x0804be19 in -[ObserverSwarm buildObjects] (self=0x817cd70,
    _cmd=0x8055248) at ObserverSwarm.m:91
#11 0x08049391 in main (argc=0, argv=0x0) at main.m:42


I noticed the word "locale" in the first error message. I guess the 
(memory, probabily?) problem will occur under my default locale setting 
LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 (in /etc/sysconfig/i18n).

If I change the setting:

> export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8, or
> export LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8

then the problem is completely gone.

Given no serious flaws in my program (because I can change parameter 
values with no problem under en_US.UTF-8), I need a help to fix this 
problem so that I don't need to do

> export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

every time I run the program.

Thank you very much.

Frank

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Cheng-shan Frank Liu
Dept. of Political Science            E-mail: address@hidden
University of Kansas                  Web: http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~ashan
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