Hi,
At 26 Jun 2001 13:49:10 -0700,
H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Incidentally, I believe there needs to be an easy way to set the
> default character set in use on a system. This may of course be
> overridden by the user (possibly at their own peril), but it is
> nevertheless a useful concept.
This mechanism is implemented since X11R5. XFontSet.
Why XFontSet is not very popular? I imagine some reasons.
- People imagine from its name that it is only for CJK people
who need multiple fonts.
- People were accustomed to use system without setting locale.
XFontSet-related functions assume ASCII without locale setting.
Thus, when using XFontSet, I check locale and use XFontStruct-
related conventional non-internationalized functions when the
check fails. This can avoid complains from people who don't
know how to set locale. See the source code of twm I wrote
for detail.
xc/programs/twm/twm.c
> loc = setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
> if (!loc || !strcmp(loc, "C") || !strcmp(loc, "POSIX") ||
> !XSupportsLocale()) {
> use_fontset = False;
> } else {
> use_fontset = True;
> }
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