Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 20:32:47 EST From: Kaleb Keithley <kaleb@x.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Internationalization (was Re: CVS stuff) Message-ID: <9501190132.AA19622@fedora.x.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Jan 1995 10:57:40 PST." <199501181857.KAA24197@netcom5.netcom.com>
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>I'd rather see support for *inputting* and *displaying* >other languages first. You're using X aren't you? This is all built into X and has been since R5. Well, X still doesn't do bidirectional or vertical text very well. But before you can use what's built into X you need good locale support built into the C runtime and/or OS. I submitted a LATIN-1 LC_CTYPE file a while back. Work needs to be done to add other support for other locales/- languages/charsets. And after that you'll still need an input method. Implementing input-methods for your locale/language/character set is left as an exercise for the reader. Xlib has a built-in input method for the LATIN-1 alphabet, so at least it's not necessary to write one for most european users, which may only be a small consolation. ;-) -- Kaleb KEITHLEY
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