I haven't tried but in my understanding, the CVS tree of XF86 4.0.2 merged
with Sun X I18n at the www.li18nux.org has en_US.UTF-8 locale and I think,
and hopefully, that can be very easily converted and/or changed to
ja_JP.UTF-8 or any other UTF-8/Unicode locales.
With regards,
Ienup
] Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:11:39 +0100
] From: Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
] Subject: Re: X input methods for utf-8?
] To: Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
]
]
] Bruno Haible wrote:
]
] > This is nice theory. But the problem Bram is facing is:
] > - He would like to have vim run in an UTF-8 locale with a Japanese
] > input method.
] > - Most input methods for Japanese assume an EUC-JP encoding.
] > - The XIM functions in Xlib pass the text directly to the callbacks
] > the application has registered, without conversion. Look at imCallbk.c.
] >
] > Thus some conversion from EUC-JP to UTF-8 must be done somewhere. Bram
] > currently must do it in iconv. But I think doing it in Xlib would be
] > better, because there are many applications like vim, and some of them
] > don't want to use iconv - they just want to get UTF-8 input.
]
] Right. The information I gathered so far is that there is no UTF-8
] locale available for X-windows. At least not for most people on
] existing systems. Is it possible at all (under development)?
]
] The XIM produces characters as "compound strings". The application
] receives it in the current locale, with an implicit conversion. Since
] an UTF-8 locale currently can't be used, I have to use the trick to keep
] the locale set to euc-jp, for example, and translate it with iconv() to
] UTF-8.
]
] Vim then internally works with UTF-8 (this can be set with the
] 'charcode' option and selecting a Unicode font). This is a bit tricky,
] working with text in another encoding than the current locale, but I
] think it will work. Vim uses its own functions to deal with UTF-8, it
] doesn't depend on mblen(), wcwidth(), etc.
]
] A better solution would be that the locale is set to UTF-8. The
] X-windows functions should then automatically translate the compound
] string to UTF-8. Then no translation is necessary in the application.
] This is for later.
]
] Note that my conclusions have not been verified.
]
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