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


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