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Re: unicode and XFree

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Subject: Re: unicode and XFree
From: Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:34:56 +0100 (CET)
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Tomas Frydrych writes:
> 
> Thanks everyone for their previous help. I have now got both XFree 
> 4.0.2 and glibc 2.2 installed, have set up en_GB.UTF-8 locale
> ...
> However, when I examined the behaviour using xev, I have noticed
> that XLookupString returns an empty string for my Hebrew Unicode
> characters.

This is normal. The XLookupString function was designed before X11's
internationalization, In other words, all applications that use
XLookupString behave wrong in internationalized environments, and
should use XmbLookupString (or maybe Xutf8LookupString, in the case of
yudit).

Bruno
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- unicode and XFree
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