Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> There's also *experimental* UTF8 support that must be specifically
> enabled from system.mk. You must have XFree86 (4.x?) and C99 wide
> char support available (either libc directly or maybe libutf8+libiconv).
> Thanks to bugs (?) in some of the XFree86 Xutf8 functions, your locales
> must be properly set up or else X will stop drawing strings at non-ascii
> characters instead of ignoring them. See my earlier rants on the mailing
> list for reasons on not using the more standard Xmb functions.
> To actually see any special characters, you must load the necessary fonts
> by specifying a comma-separated list of fonts to the font and tab_font
> draw.conf options. Multiple font loading does not work when Xft support
> is enabled at the time being.

So, how am I supposed to package this? If I compile with UTF-8
enabled, it will break for users who hasn't set up their locales
"properly" (whatever that means). But if I don't, those who want UTF-8
will have to recompile it and that's not very good either. Isn't it
possible to check for this at runtime or anything?

/Pelle

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