Re: locale support

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Owen Taylor wrote:

>> Why not implement the ability for X to use the system locale 
>> information first, and make it compile time conditionally 
>> enabled.  Default to using it on OS combinations it is known to 
>> work on, and fix problems as they arise.  There's always fallback 
>> to existing code then to handle any problems that come up.  In 
>> time, all relevant platforms will either:
>
>Note that this capability is largely already there, and already
>used in XFree86 builds. The only thing that might be getting
>duplicated now is Unicode and code conversion tables, but replacing
>that with iconv() is not particularly easy, and definitely not
>particularly portable. (I'm not sure *BSD even have iconv() support
>yet; the names of character sets for iconv aren't at all portable
>across systems.)

Yes, the code conversion tables was one of the primary things I 
believe Jim is wanting to get rid of.  I agree that this stuff 
should be disabled by default on systems that provide their own 
mechanisms.

-- 
Mike A. Harris