[Bug: 21.5-b27] font-lock-fontify-* / infinite loop

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Dr. Volker Zell writes:

 >     > AFAICT this is all X11 magic in app-defaults, so you need to set the
 >     > appropriate environment variable.  LC_ALL=C or LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
 >     > should do.  It may be possible to use site-start.el to get the expr
 >     > `(setenv "LC_ALL" "C")' or similar executed before X goes groveling
 >     > through the menubar resources, but I'm not sure about that.
 > 
 > Setting this env variables doesn't help.

An alternative try at a workaround would be LC_CTYPE=C (but I think
LC_ALL overrides LC_CTYPE, if so it won't help).

There's no particular need for you to test it if you don't think it's
better for your needs than renaming the app-defaults file.  I'm pretty
sure I can test it for myself (when I get the time ...).

(Note: I don't think either the env var or renaming the file is a
satisfactory solution, but some ... er ... negotiation needs to be
done about what XEmacs "should" do about a permanent solution.)