On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:34:36PM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:37:34 +0100 > >>>>> "Olivier" == Olivier Chapuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Olivier> > Olivier> I am not able to configure my machine to do so. Do you have some > Olivier> tips? I can for KOI8-R or JIS.2022 but not for utf8. > > localedef -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 > you need relatively modern libc to create UTF-8 locales >
Ah ok, my glibc seems to old, maybe I can try libutf8. > >> One thing I cannot undestand why you still keep !I18N_MB. > Olivier> > Olivier> Hum, Dominik answer such a question recently. I try to find > Olivier> the message I fail. Dominik? > > actually I understand. it is much more speedy to deal with XFont than > with XFontSet, but everything seems to rush towards unicode. > > >> Hope you > >> know that it is usable only for 7bit and western-european people. > >> > Olivier> > Olivier> I do not think so. You can use KOI8-R encoding with !I18N_MB but you > Olivier> should effectively specify KOI8-R fonts. > > It wont work. Really. And cannot. If we have a non 7bit char* in X the > one way to draw it without information lost is XmbDrawString. > Attached to this message a FvwmScrip tscreenshot releaseed with 2.4.4 without multibyte (Menu seems to work too). Anyway I am sure that it is ok as I do not understand russian at all. Olivier
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