From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 2 11:58:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA04262 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 11:58:38 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA04249 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 11:58:34 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA20661; Thu, 2 Mar 95 09:52:46 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9503021652.AA20661@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: xview port To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 95 9:52:45 MST Cc: dgy@seagull.rtd.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9503021136.AA29503@fedora.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Mar 2, 95 06:36:47 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.