But I thought the core X font / print calls like in motif don't support UTF-8.... ?!
Regards Harry > -----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. > > Regards, > Owen > > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
