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Date:      Thu, 2 Mar 1995 08:32:54 -0800
From:      patl@asimov.lashley.slip.netcom.com
To:        kaleb@x.org
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: xview port
Message-ID:  <9503021632.AA01764@lashley.slip.netcom.com>

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|>  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. :-)

Hmmmm.  Quite a lot of work went into internationalizing XView; but
I think most of it was after the snapshot that went into X11R5.  I'll
ask my contacts at SunSoft about later public source releases,



-Pat



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