SOURCES: X11-glibc-charset.patch (NEW) - patch to use

Andrzej Krzysztofowicz ankry at green.mif.pg.gda.pl
Tue Sep 28 18:40:03 CEST 2004


=?iso-8859-2?Q?Pawe=B3?= Sakowski wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:05 +0200, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> > =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pawe=B3?= Sakowski wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 05:13 +0200, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> > > > But if you declare, that ISO-8859-2 is used for local encoding, what byte
> > > > sequences are used for Hebrew/Japanese characters?
> > > 
> > > XwcDrawString with appropriate dword sequences.
> > 
> > So what has locale to do here ? Does it matter at all ?
> 
> I think it does -- or don't the XLC_LOCALE rules apply for font
> selection for wide character strings?

Do you see any reason it should ?
IMO it should only if the displayed characters are encoded with the
locale-specific encoding.

> It's obvious that using narrow characters (as in ISO 8859-2) limits your
> choice of script.

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