Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 10:00:18 -0400 From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com> To: devel@XFree86.Org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anybody from the XFree86 team here ? Message-ID: <36138AF2.6B08CAC3@ics.com> References: <3612A380.5A1E9F1C@ics.com> <19981001111023D.shiozaki@ased.mt.nec.co.jp>
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Takuya SHIOZAKI wrote:
>
> It is important that we design and implement better I18N facility
> for not only X11 but also any Free-Unix.
> Locale implementation on the Free-Unix is poorer than
> Commercial-Unix's one (for instance, the locale implementation on
> Solaris-2.{5,6} is very good). That is fatal to make also I18Nized X11
> application, since it seems that X11 and XFree86 prefer to use
> OS locale basically, instead of X11 own locale facility.
The design and intent is that X11 should use the operating system's
locale support.
If locale support is weak or non-existent then you may build X11 with
-DX_LOCALE, but that is only a workaround.
--
Kaleb
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