On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 10:14, Berge, Harry ten wrote: > But I thought the core X font / print calls like in motif don't support > UTF-8.... ?!
They only support the encoding of the locale. If the encoding of the locale is UTF-8, it will generally work fine. >From one perspective, UTF-8 is just another multibyte encoding like EUC-JP or EUC-CN (GB2312). Regards, Owen > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Owen Taylor [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 3:43 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: SuSE general (E-mail) > > Subject: Re: [XFree86] UTF-8 and Motif? > > > > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 08:50, Berge, Harry ten wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > We have an 'old' Motif application that needs to becomeUTF-8 aware for a > > > Chinese customer. The question is how? Motif doesn't support UTF-8, so > > > basically the advise that we already had was "go to use Qt or GTK, don't > > use > > > Motif (anymore)". > > > > > > But is this the only alternative? Wouldn't it be possible to use Xf2 / > > > Freetype from within our Motif application? > > > > Not for menus, text entry boxes, etc. I'd really expect that if you > > run in a UTF-8 locale, things might just work with your application. > > (Well, as well as core X fonts ever work.) > > > > And if you aren't running in a UTF-8 locale, things will be hopeless. > > Motif and its dependencies are completely tied to the idea that > > they are using the encoding of the locale. > > > > A lot of old Motif apps (Acroread, Netscape 4) don't work well in > > UTF-8 locales, but that's generally application bugs. > > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86