From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 1 07:00:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA21059 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 07:00:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ics.com (ics.com [140.186.40.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA21054 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 07:00:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kaleb@ics.com) Received: from ics.com (sunoco.ics.com [140.186.40.142]) by ics.com (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with ESMTP id KAA11879; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:00:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <36138AF2.6B08CAC3@ics.com> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 10:00:18 -0400 From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: devel@XFree86.Org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anybody from the XFree86 team here ? References: <3612A380.5A1E9F1C@ics.com> <19981001111023D.shiozaki@ased.mt.nec.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Takuya SHIOZAKI wrote: > > It is important that we design and implement better I18N facility > for not only X11 but also any Free-Unix. > Locale implementation on the Free-Unix is poorer than > Commercial-Unix's one (for instance, the locale implementation on > Solaris-2.{5,6} is very good). That is fatal to make also I18Nized X11 > application, since it seems that X11 and XFree86 prefer to use > OS locale basically, instead of X11 own locale facility. The design and intent is that X11 should use the operating system's locale support. If locale support is weak or non-existent then you may build X11 with -DX_LOCALE, but that is only a workaround. -- Kaleb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message