Around 14 o'clock on Dec 25, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Is there any platform-independent way of using fontsets > and multibyte characters with Xlib? Others may know better, but as far as I know, the multi-byte support in Xlib is dependent on the ANSI/ISO C language locale model and hence relies on underlying C library support of each locale. The lack of standardization in the underlying locales supported is part of the reason I believe many projects are moving away from a locale-based model for internal text support and towards a model where the locale-specific text is converted at the operating system boundaries of the application to a standard Unicode encoding. Once the text is internally represented in Unicode, there are convenient Xlib functions that accept utf8 encoded strings (Xutf8DrawText et al.) This will also ease the transition from core X text support to the newer client-side font support of Xft which provides only Unicode APIs. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team Compaq Cambridge Research Lab _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
