From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 2 11:10:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA00406 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 11:10:12 -0800 Received: from mail.netcom.com (root@mail.netcom.com [192.100.81.99]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA00395 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 11:10:07 -0800 From: patl@asimov.lashley.slip.netcom.com Received: from lashley.slip.netcom.com by mail.netcom.com (8.6.10/Netcom) id IAA20705; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 08:29:41 -0800 Received: by lashley.slip.netcom.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA01764; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 08:32:54 -0800 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 08:32:54 -0800 Message-Id: <9503021632.AA01764@lashley.slip.netcom.com> To: kaleb@x.org Subject: Re: xview port Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk |> 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