On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:26:43 +0200, Bradley T Hughes wrote: >So, I've just spent some time working on one of the biggest deficiencies >in 0.70.0-beta1: Unicode support. > >For blackbox users: > >This means that blackbox is on EWMH compliant, and exchanges strings >with EWMH compliant applications/utilites in UTF-8. If you use the >right fonts, you should see any Unicode character you want. For >example, take a look at >http://trolls.troll.no/bhughes/blackbox/blackbox-unicode.png > >For libbt users: > >The API has changed slightly from beta1. There is now bt/Unicode.hh, >which includes some nice functions to convert from the user's locale to >Unicode and back. In addition, you can convert from Unicode to UTF-8 >and back, but you should rarely need this. A new Unicode string type >has also been introduced: bt::ustring, which is used for any string >that can be displayed on screen. > >Questions/comments/flames are more than welcome. :)
Just wondering how hard it would be to make this an option? Specifically the dependency on libiconv. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
