Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 04:40:20 +0900 (JST) From: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp> To: robert@suse.co.uk Cc: bsd-locale@hauN.org, core@XFree86.Org, dawes@XFree86.Org, i18n@freebsd.org, i18n@XFree86.Org, li18nux@li18nux.net, tech-x11@netbsd.org, tech@openbsd.org, tshiozak@bsdclub.org Subject: Re: [I18n] project fork? Message-ID: <200012201940.EAA03957@srapc342.sra.co.jp>
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> And there is another issue, that en_US.UTF-8 may have a different fontset
> than zh_CN.UTF-8 and ja_JP.UTF-8 - if we just do
>
> setlocale(en_US_UTF8_locale),
>
> you effectively break locales which need a different fontset than
> en_US. (I suppose I have no need to tell you about the CJK font style
> variations)
If you took this issue seriously, you must noticed that what you
had to do in this area is not to add the Xutf* APIs, but adding
the following API:
char *XFree86UTF8Locale(locale_name);
... this function returns corresponding UTF-8 locale to
argument locale.
e.g. XFree86UTF8Locale("ja_JP.eucJP") returns "ja_JP.UTF-8".
Then you can become to write the following code fragment:
current_locale = setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL);
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, XFree86UnicodeLocale(current_locale));
... create Unicode FontSet here ...
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, current_locale);
In other words, what you had to do in this area was to add ONLY ONE API,
rather than bunch of new Xutf8 APIs.
> > And as I already said, the Xutf8 API doesn't solve the problem.
> > The only option to solve this problem is to make (very few) APIs
> > which have explicit locale argument.
>
> That is an option, certainly.
And Xutf8* APIs don't solve this problem.
> Have you got a patch to do that?
Patch to X11 part is quite trivial, isn't it?
> > In other words, Xutf8 APIs don't solve real problem, don't add
> > any new feature, only add incompatiblity and make code bloat.
>
> Bruno, how big is it, a couple of kilobytes or something? That's little
> enough that it might not actually increase the memory footprint.
As I already said, current implementation of Xutf8 APIs isn't good
enough. It should become as big as IIIMXCF implementation.
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soda
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