Peter Åstrand wrote:
>>> one man reported problem that vncviewer doesn't show Russian letters
>>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501832).
>>>
>>> After quick inspection main problem is that libX11 text routines
>>> (mainly XDrawString) doesn't support UTF-8.
>>
>> What if you use the UTF-8 variants like Xutf8DrawString?
>
> I guess that's possible, for those platforms that supports this
> extension. According to my man page, it was added to XF86 4.0.2. I guess
> platforms such as Solaris 8 does not support it? That would be a problem
> for us.
Right - it's in current OpenSolaris & Solaris Express, but not Solaris 10
and older.
> In any case, getting full language support is more complicated than just
> start using Xutf8DrawString. One needs to handle right-to-left writing
> and things like that.
Right - something like pango would be much better than raw Xlib there.
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