Date: Thu, 2 Mar 95 9:52:45 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Cc: dgy@seagull.rtd.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: xview port Message-ID: <9503021652.AA20661@cs.weber.edu> 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. :-) Actually, Sun did release a locale aware Xview. In it, they included their first cut of the locale libraries themselves. I rememeber that I looked at the code once a while back specifically because I was only interested in the locale parts. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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