On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 06:08:06PM +0700, Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov wrote: > On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:36:27PM +0700, Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov wrote: > > > BTW, would it be possible to make --enable-multibyte a default in > > > 2.4.1? > > > > > > As I understand, most of the people are lucky with 8859-1, but that's > > > not the case for us, koi8-r'ers. In most of the modern apps (Netscape is > > > most popular) russian titles are displayed as raw 2022 strings, i.e. the > > > titles are interweaved with "koi8-r" strings and 2022 escapes. (Sure, my > > > students now better understand how i18n works in X, but I'd prefer them to > > > use their time for other work.) > > > > > > Is there something critical and untested in multibyte code? > > > > The whole multibyte support is basically untested :-) I can't > > remember the minute details, but there are several places where > > internationalised strings are not yet handled. Then there was > > this font problem you reported a while ago. Finally, it's > > implemented using dozens of ifdefs all over the code. This can > > not be the final solution. A library like implementation like the > > Xinerama library is needed. This includes a font/fontlist > > management module that hides the details from the caller. > > Okay, this answers the question I haven't asked yet -- regarding > antialiased text. The Xft library becomes very polular, and is already > used in Qt, Gtk and some other WMs. I've skimmed through fvwm code, and > it has too close relations with X core fonts. But if a dedicated library > is already planned for i18n, adding support for antialiased text will be > easy.
Planned is perhaps not the right term. "Needed urgently" might be a better one. We don't have anyone here on the list who is experienced in mb support *and* willing to do the work. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LifeBits Aktiengesellschaft, Albrechtstr. 9, D-72072 Tuebingen fon: ++49 (0) 7071/7965-0, fax: ++49 (0) 7071/7965-20 -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
