Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 11:30:58 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@seagull.rtd.com> To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: xview port Message-ID: <199503021830.LAA19598@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <9503021136.AA29503@fedora.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Mar 2, 95 06:36:47 am
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> > XView appears to, by default, assume no support for locales. > >Should this be changed in the port? > > X11R5 is the first version of X that had any kind of support for > i18n/l10n. As I recall, all official support of xview by Sun ended > before Sun had an R5-based product available. I'm not familiar with > xview so I don't know how hard it would be to do correctly. You'll > need to support using input methods and wide characters in text, etc., > etc. If you go down this path you may be biting off a bigger chunk > than you realize. :-) Sorry, I guess I wasn't explicit enough... there are *existing* switches in the configuration files (e.g., "OsHasLocale" in XView.cf) to turn on locale support in the code. I was wondering why these switches were left "Off" in the xview port to FreeBSD (1.1.5.1). The commentary seems to indicate "setlocale()" is all (?) that's needed... > >Or, is setlocale() (et al.) > >broken? I'm using 1.1.5 > > Locale support is pretty weak in 1.1.5.1. I don't have any reason to > believe it's any better in 2.x. I started to dabble with it some, and > put together an ISO8859-1 locale file, which I think got renamed to > lt_LN.ISO8859-1. You can get it from the FreeBSD-current sources in > src/usr.bin/mklocale/data. Or maybe someone else did that one, I don't > know. In any event libc makes some use of the locale data, but has a > long way to go. If I can nurse my system back to health, get more disk, > and upgrade to 2.x, then I'll work on it some more. I was curious if I should throw the switches and "backfill" the extra locales later (xview is a pig to build) Thx, --don
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