Hi,
At Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:11:06 +0200 (CEST),
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - Newbies should have only a single variable to set in their
> $HOME/.profile, not dozens.
Yes. This is the point. When users set "LANG" vairable, they
expect all softwares to obey the variable.
> - We want to make it easy for everyone to use an UTF-8 locale.
> Users shouldn't be bothered to change various $HOME/.* files,
> set .Xdefault resources etc.
Yes. However, not only UTF-8 but also all other encodings.
> - All X programs which set their default font to "*-iso8859-1"
> independently of the locale. This includes nedit.
Of course such softwares are buggy. However, softwares
which use XDraw{Image}String() are also buggy. (Softwares
before X11R4 should use both XDraw{Image}String() and
XDraw{Image}String16(). Modern softwares after X11R5
should use X{mb,wc,(utf8?)}Draw{Image}String().)
And more, default font of "-adobe-helvetica-*" is buggy enough.
This excludes most non-Latin fonts. "-adobe-helvetica-*,*" is
good. Or, adding-",*"-mechanism before XCreateFontSet() is
better, like I modified twm.
in xc/programs/twm/util.c
> basename2 = (char *)malloc(strlen(font->name) + 3);
> if (basename2) sprintf(basename2, "%s,*", font->name);
> else basename2 = font->name;
> if( (font->fontset = XCreateFontSet(dpy, basename2,
> &missing_charset_list_return,
> &missing_charset_count_return,
> &def_string_return)) == NULL) {
Of course we can implement better font-guessing mechanism, like
I implemented for IceWM, Blackbox, and Sawfish. (I didn't use the
mechanism for twm because I thought the mechanism is too heavy for
twm.)
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Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
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