On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:16:12AM +0000, Tom Payne wrote:
> Still to do (IMHO):

Check for Xutf8DrawString and libunicode (the one from Gnome, not the
one on sourceforge.net -- no it does not seem to depend on other Gnome
libraries or even glib). The system.mk options are:

DEFINES += -DCF_UTF8
EXTRA_INCLUDES += `unicode-config --cflags`
EXTRA_LIBS += `unicode-config --libs`

Yes, I know, the Xutf8 functions are XFree86 (4.x?) dependent, but with the
more standard Xlib and libc multibyte encoding support functions backwards
string parsing (title shortening, line editor) would have to be done very
inefficiently for all encodings (unless extra bloat is added to handle
known efficiently parseable encodings). I rather support a well though-out
universally sufficient standard than dozens of different character maps
and encodings that are causing enough problems already.

-- 
Tuomo

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