wmiir blocks in read /event --> wmii does not react to any events

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. start wmii
2. wmii does not react to any user input

What is the expected result? What do you see instead?
Expected: Main event loop should start processing events that are read via 
"wmiir read /event").
Actual: wmiir never returns from "wmiir read /event", instead it blocks forever

What version of the product are you using (wmii -v)? On what operating
system (uname -a)?
wmii-hg2786+, libixp 141 (latest tips)
Linux x 2.6.37-gentoo-r4 #1 SMP Sat Apr 30 14:08:23 CEST 2011 i686 Intel(R) 
Core(TM) Duo CPU L2500 @ 1.83GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Please provide any additional information below.

I'm quite lost here, since current tips seem to work for everyone else...
The problem can also be reproduced by running a pair of "wmiir read /event" and 
"echo foo | wmiir write /event" commands. "foo" arrives in wmiir (I verified by 
debug prints inside wmiir), but wmiir does not return after that and waits 
forever for more data to come.

I tracked this down inside libixp - the actual blocking appears in
transport.c:mread(), when invoking "r = thread->read(fd, msg->pos, n);"

Version 3.9.2 does work fine, also the test with with the "wmii read/write 
pair" works fine with that.

$HOME/.wmii* has been wiped for all tests.

Is there any fundamental thing that I overlooked during install/build? (Well... 
same steps work fine for 3.9.2 at least).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by a...@fractal9.net on 1 May 2011 at 2:20

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Try setting your LANG=C, as suggested in this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.suckless/5302

Original comment by sun...@gmail.com on 1 May 2011 at 6:11

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Thank you, the locale was indeed the problem here. With a UTF-8 setting for 
LC_CTYPE, everything works fine. Phew.

Original comment by a...@fractal9.net on 1 May 2011 at 9:02

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Original comment by sun...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2011 at 7:56

• Changed state: Verified

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This issue was closed by revision 1d200a866939.

Original comment by maglion...@gmail.com on 20 Sep 2011 at 3:45

• Changed state: Fixed