Re: Unicode support
Richard Levitte <[email protected]>
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In message <[email protected]> on Mon, 20 Mar 2017 04:43:46 -0500, "Matthew D. Fuller" <[email protected]> said: fullermd> fullermd> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 11:50:11AM +0000 I heard the voice of fullermd> Yumekui Neru, and lo! it spake thus: fullermd> > fullermd> > Is there a way to achieve full unicode support, or is this a fullermd> > limitation that is hard to do away with? fullermd> fullermd> It works at least to some extent; I get characters way off in fullermd> multi-byte-land showing up fine in titlebars from e.g. Firefox. Make fullermd> sure you're running ctwm in a locale that expects such, of course. fullermd> fullermd> I don't know how thoroughly the code really gets exercised. I've fullermd> lived out my life comfortably in 7-bit-land, so I'm probably the last fullermd> person who'd see problems. So there could certainly be gremlins in fullermd> there somewhere. I think I tested this in all kinds of circumstances I could think of, and it seemed to work well. There really isn't much else than title bars, menus, that kind of thing. The rest is up to each application. That being said, I won't give you any guarantees. This was a while ago, and I forget all the details. -- Richard Levitte [email protected] http://richard.levitte.org/ "Life is a tremendous celebration - and I'm invited!" -- from a friend's blog, translated from Swedish