Re: Motif (getting nedit to work with lesstif)

Thomas Orgis wrote:

> Yeah, let's talk about Unicode support again;-)
> Actually, does Motif pose a problem with that or is it only a
> matter of nedit pulling the right strings for text display (apart
> from the internal handling)?

>From  : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(widget_toolkit)

    "As of version 2.1 Motif supports Unicode, which has made it
     widely used in several multilingual environments."

I don't know whether lesstif supports that or not.

> Oh, and generally... try to run nedit with valgrind and you see
> _lots_ of conditionals that depend on uninitialized variables inside
> lesstif.

Yes, thats very disturbing.

> Someone more familiar with the lesstif source

I am reasonably good at diving into large bundles of source code and
getting to the bottom of them.  I once tried that with lesstif and
got exactly nowhere.

> I wonder if there is anyone familiar with lesstif source and still caring.

I sort of doubt it.

> Oh, and I fixed a memcpy() with overlapping memory in my local copy... 

In lesstif or nedit? If it was nedit, patch please :-).
 
Cheers,
Erik
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